Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches the University of Toronto.

Life and career
Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

She received her Ph.D in English from the University of Toronto, writing her PhD thesis on the work of the American poet Anne Sexton.

In 1997, Insomniac Press published her controversial book on the Canadian criminal Paul Bernardo, 'Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters.

In 2006, Crosbie published a book-length poem titled Liar, available through House of Anansi Press. Liar is a personal work that deals with the end of her seven-year relationship with the professional wrestling fan Michael Holmes. Her long relationship with the writer Tony Burgess is chronicled in Pearl (1996.)

Crosbie is a cultural critic, and the author of several books of poetry: Miss Pamela's Mercy, VillainElle, and Missing Children.

Crosbie has lectured on and written about visual art at the AGO, the Power Plant, and OCAD University (where she taught for six years.) She is an award-winning journalist who has a regular column titled "Pop Rocks" in the Toronto newspaper, The Globe and Mail; and is a regular contributor to Toronto Life Fashion.

Her Trampoline Hall Lecture was entitled "Don't Have Casual Sex."

Her new book, Life Is About Losing Everything, a roman a clef/fictional memoir, will be released in the spring of 2012 with House of Anansi.

Publications

 * Miss Pamela's Mercy - 1992
 * Villainelle - 1994
 * Pearl - 1996
 * Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters - 1997
 * Queen Rat: New and Selected Poems - 1998
 * Dorothy L'Amour - 1999
 * Phoebe 2002 - 2003 (with Jeffery Conway and David Trinidad)
 * Missing Children - 2003
 * Liar - 2006