Brenda Brooks was born in Rivers, Manitoba, and grew up in various locales across the country. She graduated from York University in Toronto, and worked for many years at the Canadian Press News Service. She now lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C., where she is working on a novel and poetry collection. She has written two poetry collections, a novel and appeared in anthologies in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.A.
PUBLICATIONS:
Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry. Mothertongue Press: Editor Fertig and Rhenisch, 2009
Gotta Find Me An Angel (Novel). Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 2005.
The Dominion of Love -- An Anthology of Canadian Love Poems. (Ed. Tom Wayman). Harbour Publishing, 2001
In Fine Form -- The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. (Eds. Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve). Vancouver: Polestar, 2005
Constellations -- Twenty Years of Stellar Poetry from Polestar. Vancouver,, 2001
Poems Between Women -- Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire. (Ed. Emma Donoghue). Columbia University Press, NY, 1997
