Eleonore Schönmaier
BIO
Biography

Eleonore Schönmaier's most recent collection is Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete (2021, McGill-Queen's University Press). Wavelengths of Your Song (2013, MQUP) was published in German translation as Wellenlängen deines Liedes in 2020 by parasitenpresse (Cologne).  Dust Blown Side of the Journey (2017, MQUP) was a finalist for the Eyelands Book Awards (Greece). Treading Fast Rivers (1999, MQUP) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Schönmaier has taught advanced fiction courses at St. Mary's University, creative writing at Mount Saint Vincent University, and has worked as a poetry mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Her poetry has been set to music by Canadian, Dutch, Scottish, American and Greek composers and she has performed her poetry in concert with The New European Ensemble among others. She has won the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and the National Broadsheet Contest among others. Published in the Academy of American Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day booklet in 2018 and 2021, and the League of Canadian Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day Brochure in 2018, 2019 and 2021, she has also been widely anthologised in the United States and Canada including in Best Canadian Poetry.    https://eleonoreschonmaier.com  

ADDRESS
City: , Province/Territory: Nova Scotia
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, Fiction, Essays
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Wavelengths of Your Song
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2013
Title
Dust Blown Side of the Journey
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2017
Title
Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2021
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Finalist
Name
Sheldon Currie Fiction Award, Second Prize
Publication
The Antigonish Review
Name
Earle Birney Prize for Poetry
Publication
Prism International
Name
Alfred G. Bailey Prize
Name
National Broadsheet Contest Winner
Publication
League of Canadian Poets
Year
2019
Name
Eyelands Book Awards finalist (Greece) for Dust Blown Side of the Journey
Year
2020
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PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
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