Lorna crozier biography

Canadian poet

Lorna Crozier, OC (born 24 May 1948) is a Canadian poet, author, and former chair of the Writing Department at the University of Victoria.^[1][2] She is the author of twenty-five books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011 as one of Canada's pre-eminent poets and for her teaching.

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Crozier is credited as Lorna Uher on some of her earlier works.

Life

Crozier was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1948.^[3] Alcohol and poverty was a common backdrop in her childhood, which later became inspiration for her poetry.^[4]

Crozier attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received her B.A.

in 1969, and the University of Alberta where she received her M.A. in 1980.^[3] Crozier then went on to become a high school English teacher and guidance counsellor. During these years, her first poem was published in Grain magazine.^[5]

In addition to her professorship at the Univ