Lorri Neilsen Glenn

Lorri Neilsen Glenn is a Canadian poet, ethnographer and essayist.

Life
Born and raised on the Prairies, Neilsen Glenn moved to Nova Scotia in 1983.

She lives in Halifax, and teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University. Neilsen Glenn is the recipient of several awards for her scholarship; her poetry has won or has been shortlisted for the National Magazine Awards, Short Grain Contest, CBC Literary Awards, Bliss Carmen Poetry Award, CV2 Poetry Contest, The Malahat Open Season Award, among others. Her creative nonfiction has won awards in Grain, Event Magazine, and Prairie Fire.

Neilsen Glenn has taught writing (poetry, creative nonfiction/memoir) across Canada, as well as in Ireland, Australia, Chile, and Greece. She has worked extensively with writers in all walks of life since 1983.

Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of several books on literacy and ethnography, scholarly and freelance articles on women and literacy, and book reviews in national and international journals and newspapers.

Her first book of poetry, All the Perfect Disguises, was published in 2003. In 2007, a chapbook, Saved String (Rubicon Press) and the collection Combustion (Brick Books) were published. Neilsen Glenn published 'Lost Gospels' (Brick Books) in 2010. A collection of essays on poetry and loss, Threading Light, was published in 2011 by Hagios Press. The best-selling anthology of poetry and prose about mothers, "Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950sItalic text" was published in 2013 by Guernica Editions.

Recognition
Neilsen Glenn was appointed poet laureate for the Halifax Regional Municipality in 2005, a role she held through 2009.

Publications

 * "Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s" Guernica Editions, 2013
 * Threading Light, Hagios Press, 2011
 * The art of visual inquiry (co-editor). Backalong Books, 2007
 * Saved String, Rubicon Press, 2007
 * Combustion, Brick Books, 2007
 * Provoked by Art, (co-editor). Backalong Books, 2004
 * All the Perfect Disguises, Broken Jaw, 2003
 * The Art of Writing Inquiry, (co-editor). Backalong Books, 2001
 * Knowing her Place, Caddo Gap, 1998
 * A Stone in my shoe: Literacy in times of change, Peguis Publishers, 1992
 * Literacy and Living, Heinemann Books, 1989