Join host Dan Kirk on October 6th with our feature poet Lorraine Martinuik. Feature poet followed by open mic, sign up at the door (5 mins each spot).

Lorraine Martinuik’s poetry and experimental prose has appeared in literary journals such as Island, The Capilano Review, The Normal School and Truck, as well as several anthologies such as Kitchen Talk and Drift (edited by Ed Varney and Dan Kirk). In 1989, she was awarded a Canada Council grant, for an experimental fiction project that dealt in part with narrative structure.

Martinuik was born in northern Alberta; she grew up in B.C.’s Peace River district, and later in the Fraser Valley. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, and an MFA in poetry from the University of New Orleans. Her MFA thesis, The Language of Trees was awarded the Cassin Prize for Poetry.

She has been based on Denman Island since 1980, when she bought a piece of raw land and built the studio cottage where she now lives and works.