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Jeanette Lynes (born Seim) is a Canadian poet, fiction writer, editor, and university teacher. She was born in Hanover, Ontario, in 1956. She attended John Diefenbaker Secondary School in Hanover and Grey Highlands Secondary School in Flesherton, Ontario. She entered York University in Toronto in 1975 and graduated with an Honors B.A. in English. This was followed by a M.A. in English in 1980 and a Ph.D. in English, with a specialization in Canadian literature. Lynes earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's low-residency program in 2005. She has taught English at various colleges and universities in Canada and the United States including Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish Nova Scotia. She has also taught creative writing at the Banff Centre, the Sage Hill Writing Experience, and the Great Blue Heron Writing Workshops. Jeanette has been a visiting professor and/or visiting writer at Princeton University (2003), Saskatoon Public Library (2005-06), Queen's University (2008) and the University of Manitoba (2009). For the past several years, Lynes has co-edited The Antigonish Review. Jeanette Lynes has published several poetry chapbooks, most recently Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems (Jack Pine Press, 2007) with Alison Calder. She has published five collections of poetry: A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (Wolsak and Wynn, 1999) The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet (Mansfield Press, 2003) Left Fields (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003) It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfeld Poems (Freehand, 2008) The New Blue Distance (Wolsak and Wynn, 2009) Lynes has also edited two anthologies: The Crisp Day Closing on my Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007) and Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada Lynes' first novel, The Factory Voice (Coteau Books, 2009) was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has also received, for her poetry, the Bliss Carman Award and was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award as well as a National Magazine Award. Lynes received two teaching awards from Lakehead University, including the Instructor of the Year Award. She has read her creative writing widely across Canada at events such as the Vancouver International Writers' Festival, the Calgary Spoken Word Festival, the Kingston Writers' Festival, and the Winnipeg Writers' Festival.

SEE ALSO: Twenty-First Century Canadian Writers DLB Vol. 334. "Jeanette Lynes" by Holly Luhning.