Jeanette Lynes

It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems is Jeanette Lynes` fourth collection of poetry. Her previous collections are Left Fields (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003, shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award), The Aging Cheerleader’s Alphabet (Mansfield Press, 2003), and A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (Wolsak and Wynn, 1999). Her awards include the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Bliss Carman Award, and first prize in the Grain Postcard Story Competition. She has been a visiting artist / writer-in-residence at Queen’s University, Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, and the Saskatoon Public Library, as well as a faculty member of Francis Xavier University and the Sage Hill Writing Experience. She is currently co-editor of The Antigonish Review.Jeanette Lynes grew up on a farm in Alice Munro country while "Son of a Preacher Man" played on transistor radios everywhere.

Books by Jeanette Lynes

The Paper Birds

The Apothecary's Garden

Bedlam Cowslip

Where the Nights Are Twice as Long

Archive of the Undressed

New Blue Distance, The

It's Hard Being Queen

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand

The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet

Left Fields

A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway

Words out There