Lorraine Gane was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. In the mid-seventies she graduated from Carleton University’s Honours Journalism Program, then worked as a full-time writer and editor for major Canadian newspapers and magazines until 1989, when she began freelancing. In the early nineties, she also started teaching writing at universities and colleges such as Ryerson, McMaster, and Georgian (later at Vancouver Island University and the University of Victoria), as well as conducting her own private workshops. Selections from Lorraine’s first poetry book, Even the Slightest Touch Thunders on My Skin (Black Moss Press, 2002), were shortlisted for the Canadian Literary Awards in 1997 and the League of Canadian Poets chapbook contest. Among her publications since moving to Salt Spring Island, B.C., are the chapbooks Beauty and Beyond: Songs of Small Mercies and Arc of Light by Raven Chapbooks, and two full-length volumes of poems, The Way the Light Enters (Black Moss Press, 2014) and The Blue Halo (Leaf Press, 2014). She is co-winner of the 2023 Gwendolyn MacEwen Award for Best Suite of Canadian Poems. Lorraine is completing a fourth poetry collection, among other books. She mentors writers through online courses, consultations, workshops, and manuscript editing. www.lorrainegane.com.

 

Awards

Co-winner of the 2023 Gwendolyn MacEwen Award for Best Suite of Canadian Poems

Finalist, the Federation of B.C. Writers Poetry Contest, 2021

Ontario Poetry Association Award, 2007

Canadian Literary Awards, Finalist, 1997

Finalist, League of Canadian Poets chapbook contest, finalist 1999

This Magazine, finalist, 2000.

 

Selected Publications

The Blue Halo (Leaf press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-926655-77-2; The Way the Light Enters (Black Moss Press, 2014) ISBN 978-0-88753-536-9; Beauty and Beyond: Songs of Small Mercies (Leaf Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-926655-42-0; The Phantom Orchid (Blooming Ground Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-98091-0-4; Even the Slightest Touch Thunders on My Skin (Black Moss Press, 2002) ISBN 0-88753-366-3. Earth Light (Golden Bough Press, 2001).

Selected Anthologies

Rocksalt (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2008); Arborealis, the Ontario Poetry Society, 2008; Monday’s Poem, Leaf Press website, 2008, We’Moon Calendar, 2007, Swimming in the Ocean at Night (Leaf Press, 2003); Poets Against the War (www.poetsagainstthewar.org, 2003).

Books in Print

The Blue Halo (Leaf press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-926655-77-2; The Way the Light Enters (Black Moss Press, 2014) ISBN 978-0-88753-536-9; Beauty and Beyond: Songs of Small Mercies (Leaf Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-926655-42-0; The Phantom Orchid, poetry chapbook (Blooming Ground Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-98091-0-4, $20; Even the Slightest Touch Thunders on My Skin, Poetry (Black Moss Press, 2002) ISBN 0-88753-366-3, $17.95, Earth Light, poetry chapbook (Golden Bough Press, 2001), $20