Nancy Bauer

Nancy Bauer, née Nancy Luke (born 1934) is a Canadian female writer and editor who writes about craftspeople, visual artists, and writers for various maritime magazines.

Life
Born north of Boston, Massachusetts, Bauer received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1956. She moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1965.

From 1967 until 1983, Bauer was the publisher of 25 New Brunswick Chapbooks. She founded the Maritime Writers Workshop, and has served as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the Cape Cod Writers Conference, East Word One, and Bemidji State University.

She is married to Bill Bauer, writer and retired professor. She now is writing articles in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.

Awards

 * 2nd prize, CBC Literary Competition, 1982.
 * Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts, 1999.

Selected bibliography

 * "Finding a pattern with soothing words", New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, February 6th, 2010
 * "A matter of joining forces", New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, April 25th, 2009


 * Flora, Write this Down. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1982.
 * Wise Ears. Ottawa: Oberon, 1985.
 * The Opening Eye. Ottawa: Oberon, 1988.
 * Samara, the Wholehearted. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1991.
 * The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1994.

Bauer, Nancy. “Alfred Bailey and the Creative Moment.” Arts Atlantic 5.2 (1984): 28-29.

---. “Daphne Irving Enters the Fourth Stage.” Arts Atlantic 4.1 (1982): 28-30.

---. Flora, Write this Down. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 1982.

---. “Herzl Kashetsky and the Things of This World.” Arts Atlantic 4.3 (1982): 30-32.

---. The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 1994.

---. “The Long Distance Running of David Adams Richards.” Arts Atlantic 2.4 (1980): 30-31.

---. “Marjory Donaldson and the Scientific Mind.” Arts Atlantic 3.2 (1981): 28-29, 44.

---. “Oberon Press: The Other Ottawa Connection.” Arts Atlantic 4.2 (1982): 15.

---. The Opening Eye. Ottawa, ON: Oberon Press, 1988.

---. “Rick Burns Investigates the Box.” Arts Atlantic 4.4 (1983): 20-21.

---. Samara the Wholehearted. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 1991.

---. “A Visit With David Silverberg.” Arts Atlantic 2.4 (1980): 32-35.

---. Wise-Ears. Ottawa, ON: Oberon Press, 1985.