Nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).
The poems in Elizabeth Went West speak in voices revolving around the lives of women. The title selection is an imagined correspondence among three women: Elizabeth Russell, an 18th-century diarist, the 19th-­century Canadian writer Susanna Moodie, and a ­present-day poet.
''She really excels at constructing ­narrative and views of narrative.''
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Jan Horner’s first collection of poetry, Recent Mistakes (Turnstone Press), won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Her second collection, Elizabeth Went West (Turnstone Press), was a finalist for the same prize. Jan was also a finalist for the John Hirsch Award. She was a member of the editorial collective of Contemporary Verse 2 and has served on the boards of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild and the League of Canadian Poets and as a juror for many literary awards. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Manitoba and her Masters of Library Science from the University of Toronto. Jan lives in Winnipeg and is a reference librarian at the University of Manitoba.

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