User:The Mindful Bard

Wanda Waterman St. Louis was born on a couch on Swan’s Island, Maine, after a stormy ferry crossing. She is now a Nova Scotia-based musician and a writer of poetry, drama, criticism, and journalism. She collaborated with filmmaker Daniel Matmor and writer/actor Heidi Von Palleske to create the television pilot script Digby Neck, optioned by Cirrus Productions in Quebec. Her work has appeared in The New Internationalist online, This Magazine, Our Times, Descant, HerCircle, ChiZine, Tigertail, The Best of Tigertail, Perigee, Mythic Delirium, The Talking Leaves, and Pottersfield Portfolio, among other publications. Waterman St. Louis won second prize for drama in the 1998-1999 George Elliott Clarke Literary Competition for her stage play Wildflowers. She studied English at the University of King’s College and psychology and industrial relations at Athabasca University. She now writes regularly for Coastal Life and The Voice and plays jazz banjo and guitar with the The Radio StarDust Jazz Orchestra. She recently collaborated with artist Susan Malmstrom on the book Echo Chamber.