Lorna Crozier

Background

Crozier, Lorna was born on May 24, 1948 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. Daughter of Emerson and Margaret (Ford) Crozier.

Education

Crozier attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1969, and the University of Alberta where she received her Master of Arts

Career

In 1980. Before publishing her poems and stories, Crozier was a high school English teacher and guidance counsellor. During these years, her first poem was published in Grain magazine. She also taught creative writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts, the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, and the Sechelt Summer Writing Festival.

Crozier has served as the writer-in-residence at the Cypress Hills Community College in 1983, the Regina Public Library, and the University of Toronto in 1989.

Crozier has authored 15 books of work, which typically focus on human relationships, the natural world, language, memory, and perception. A book review from The Globe and Mail by Jacqueline Baker on Crozier’s book, "Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir", emphasized Crozier’s prairie roots, and gave positive feedback on this memoir.

In an interview with Joseph Planta of THECOMMENTARY.ca regarding the same book, she reveals the alcohol and poverty that surrounded her as a child. Although she grew up with a fairly difficult childhood, Crozier took her past and turned it into well renowned poetry.

Crozier has given various benefit readings for organizations such as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Wintergreen Studios, The Land Conservancy of British Columbia, the Victoria READ Society, and PEERS, a group devoted to getting prostitutes off the streets.

She has read her poetry on every continent other than Antarctica, and on 19 May 2005 Crozier recited a poem for Queen Elizabeth II as part of Saskatchewan’s Centennial Celebration. A Sudden Radiance - 1987 (with Gary Hyland) Breathing Fire - 1995 (with Patrick Lane) Desire in Seven Voices - 2000 Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast - 2001 (with Patrick Lane) Breathing Fire 2 - 2004 (with Patrick Lane) Small Beneath the Sky - 2009 The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things - 2012.

Achievements

• Lorna Crozier has been listed as a noteworthy Poet, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Inventing the Hawk

    (The poems in this haunting new book are both playful and ...)

  • The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea by Lorna Crozier (2015-09-22)
  • Whetstone by Lorna Crozier (2005-03-15)
  • The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems by Lorna Crozier (2007-04-10)
  • Lorna Crozier: The Wild in You : Voices from the Forest and the Sea (Hardcover); 2015 Edition
  • The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems by Lorna Crozier (2007-04-10)

Membership

Member ACTRA, League Canada Poets, Writer's Union Canada.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, cross-country skiing, gardening, cycling, bird watching.

Connections

Married Patrick Lane, 1978.

Father:

Emerson Crozier

Mother:

Margaret (Ford) Crozier

Spouse:

Patrick Lane