Poet, nonfiction writer, teacher and editor Betsy Warland was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1946. She obtained her B.A. in Art and Education at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa in 1970. Warland emigrated to Canada in 1973, becoming a citizen in 1980. Over the past twenty-five years she has been one of Canada's leading feminist writers as well as influential innovative writers.
Perhaps most known for her language-focused writing and ways of working with silence, her scoring of blank space on the page evokes as much meaning as her inscribing of written language. The unsayable, the secreted, the unknowable: these are her obsessions, how one encounters them in lover relationships, family, a homophobic society, a mono-truth society, or the inner work of spiritual practice.
You can get in touch with Betsy through The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University.
PUBLICATIONS:
Only This Blue: A Long Poem with an Essay. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2005.
Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss. Toronto: Sumach Press/Second Story Press, 2000.
Two Women in a Birth with Daphne Marlatt. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 1994.
The Bat Had Blue Eyes. Toronto: Women's Press, 1993.
What Holds Us Here. Ottawa, ON: Buschek Books, 1988.
