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Kathryn Mockler
Kathryn Mockler (born London, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian poet from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her most notable work published is her 128-page narrative book of poetry, Onion Man (Tightrope Books, 2011).

=Life and Career=

Born in London, Ontario Mockler who is married to David Poolman, a visual artsist, now resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where she is an English and Creative Writing lecturer at Western University. Mockler is also the senior editor of Joyland: A hub for short fiction and the publisher and co-editor of Rusty Toque, an online literary journal.

Mockler Graduated from the University of British Columbia with an MFA in Creative Writing as well as Concordia University with BA in English and Creative Writing.

Aside from being a constant contributor to Lemon hound, a blog that houses hundreds of works of poetry and creative writing from various authors, Mockler has also been published in Red Lemonade, Branch Magazine and The Windsor Review.

In 2012 Mockler took home the CBC Poetry Prize for her works, Ice Fishing, Neighbors, Stones and Looking for Cray Fish. Mockler has been featured in the Toronto International Film Festival, Worldfest, Cinequest and Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Onion Man
After 15 years of adding and taking away Mockler was finally published by Tightrope Book in 2011. Deriving inspirations from narrative poets such as Douglas Burnet Smith and Michael Turner Mockler had finally found the perfect combination of language and image for her work later known as Onion Man.

Mockler explains that her book of poetry, Onion Man, is loosely based on her experiences as a young women in London, Ontario working in a canning factory of how her experiences in London weren't those of positive ones and how she wanted to portray this in her book.

In an Interview with Stan Burfield, Burfield asks if it was possible to have located the story to any place but London, Mockler explains that because the story is based off of her own life she wanted the social conditions of London to be highlighted in the story and work within it.

=Bibliography=

•The Saddest Place on Earth, DC Books, December 2012

•Onion Man, Tightrope Books, November 2011

=Filmography=

•The Old Ways, 15 minutes, Co-writer, 2010

•Three Vignettes, 4 minutes, Writer/Co-director/Co-producer, 2010

•Reindeer in the Mountains, 8 minutes, Writer/Co-director/Co-producer, 2008

•Umbrella, Bravo!Fact, 5 minutes, Writer/Co-producer, 2008

•The Reluctant Narrator, 11 minutes, Writer/Co-director/Co-producer, 2007

•Skinheads, 16 minutes, 35 mm, Canadian Film Centre & NBC/Universal, Writer, 2006

•Spoonfed, 15 minutes, 35 mm, Canadian Film Centre & NBC/Universal, Writer, 2006

•If I See Randy Again…, 15 minutes, 35 mm, CFC & NBC/Universal, Story Editor, 2006

=Awards=

•CBC Poetry Prize, Longlist, Ice Fishing, Neighbours, Stones, Looking for Crayfish, 2012

•ReLit Awards, Longlist, Poetry, Onion Man, 2012

•Finalist, Kraft Media Prize and the WPA Experimental Media Prize, Curated by DJ Spooky, 2011

•Quarterfinalist in BlueCat Screenplay Competition, Piss Tank, 2010

•SFFS/Djerassi Residency Screenwriting Fellowship, Weak People Are Fun to Torment, 2010

•Finalist in CBC Literary Awards, Poetry, Onion Man, 2010

•Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, Silver Remi Award Winner, Skinheads, 2007

•Quarterfinalist, ASA's 10th Annual International Screenplay Competition, Piss Tank, 2007

•The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, Awarded: InVision Prize, Skinheads, 2007

•Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, Nominated for Best Drama, Spoonfed, 2007

•Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, Gold Remi Award Winner, Spoonfed, 2007

•Euroshorts International Festival of Short Film, Awarded: Special Merit Award, Skinheads, 2006

•Finalist for Arc Magazine's Poem of the Year Contest, 2002

•Finalist in CBC Radio & Saturday Night Magazine Can. Literary Awards, A Young Boy on Whose Father a Tree Had Fallen, 2000

•Jack Hodgins Award for the Sage Hill Summer Experience, 2000

•Third Prize in the Toronto Start Short Story Contest, Fishing, 1999

•Semifinalist, Academy Award Foundation's Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, Piss Tank, 1999

•Praxis Spring Screenwriting Competition, Piss Tank, 1999

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