Micheline Maylor is the 2016 – 2018 Calgary Poet Laureate. Her newest collection, Little Wildheart, was recently short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry and deals with the question: What does it mean to be human? It is due for release in spring 2017. A certified poetry fanatic, she teaches creative writing, poetry, fiction, non-fiction and composition at Mount Royal University where she won the Teaching Excellence Award in 2015. Her poetry has been published in over 85 journals in five countries. Her latest works can be found in Partisan, The Literary Review of Canada, and she is a regular poetry reviewer at Quill and Quire.

As Calgary Poet Laureate, Micheline will serve as an artistic ambassador for the citizens of Calgary from 2016 – 2018.

Related News:

Micheline Maylor named Calgary’s poet laureate, Calgary Herald, April 26, 2016

A Word With… Calgary Poet Laureate Micheline Maylor, Avenue Magazine, May 13

Poets.ca: The League of Canadian Poets