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Fraser, Janet, 1954- (Poet)

Janet Douglas Fraser was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child she wrote historical novels about Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, and Mary, Queen of Scots. She won several school awards for her fiction and essays. In high school she started writing poetry and at 16 submitted her first collection "Life As I See It" for publication. Although her manuscript was not accepted, she was given a free membership to the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, which she belonged to for many years. A librarian by training, she was the founding editor of the Canadian Literature Index (ECW Press, 1985). In 2000 she published her first poetry collection, Long Girl Leaning into the Wind (Killick Press), which was subsequently short-listed for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. In 2001-2002 she was President of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador. She completed another poetry collection, Shiftless, in 2010. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in many Canadian, American, and Irish journals and anthologies and she is the winner of three Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters awards.