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Lorna Crozier was born in 1948 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received her B.A. She also attended the University Regina and University of Alberta, where she received an M.A. in 1980. She has taught creative writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts, the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, The Red Deer College Writers on Campus Program, the Sechelt Summer Writing Festival, and the Sage Hill Writing Experience. She has also worked as a high school English teacher and as a reviewer and arts show host for CBC radio.
Lorna has also been the writer-in-residence at a number of different colleges and universities, and online with Canada's schools in the Writers In Electronic Residence program. She has also been a member of the League of Canadian Poets, vice-president of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, and committee president of the Saskatchewan Artists' Colony.

What encourage her to become a writer?

Lorna Crozier says that Sinclair Ross' novel, As For Me and My House, was the most "important influence" in her writing career. "It was the first book I read that was set in the landscape where I grew up," says the poet. "It made me realize that someone from my area could actually be a writer and, in some ways, it gave me the courage to try."

<\body> Books by Lorna Crozier

Inside Is the Sky 1976
Crow's Black Joy 1979
Humans and Other Beasts 1980
No Longer Two People (with Patrick Lane) 1981
The Weather 1983
The Garden Going On Without Us 1985
Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence 1988
Inventing the Hawk 1992
Everything Arrives at the Light 1995
A Saving Grace 1996
What the Living Won't Let Go 1999
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