Katherine Bitney
Please join us for our September Book Chat with Katherine Bitney, a well-known poet and essayist, as well as a founding member of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild and Prairie Fire Magazine.
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About Katherine Bitney
Born in England, Katherine Bitney grew up in Saskatchewan and has spent most of her life on the Canadian Prairies. She is a founding member of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild and Prairie Fire Magazine. Katherine is the author of four books of poetry, and a collection of essays, and has collaborated as librettist on a choral piece, Cantus Borealis, with composer Sid Robinovitch, which was premiered by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in April, 2011. She has worked as editor, mentor, creative writing instructor, and arts juror for over 35 years in Manitoba, and holds an MA in Religion from the University of Manitoba. Katherine Bitney lives, gardens and writes in Winnipeg.
Bibliography
- While You Were out (Turnstone Press, 1980)
- Heart and Stone (Turnstone Press, 1989)
- Singing Bone (The Muses’ Company, 1997)
- Firewalk: Poems (Turnstone Press, 2012)
- The Boreal Dragon: Encounters with a Northern Land (Wolsak & Wynn, 2013)
- Contributed to Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020)