Eleonore Schönmaier
Eleonore Schönmaier is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Career
Eleonore Schönmaier is the author of the poetry collections "Wavelengths of Your Song" (2013) and "Treading Fast Rivers" (1999), and the fiction collection "Passion Fruit Tea" (1994). Her award winning poems have been published widely in literary magazines in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including Grain, Event, "Descant", Prairie Schooner, and Stand and have been translated into Dutch and German. Her work is widely anthologized, and her poem "Weightless" was selected for "The Best Canadian Poetry 2010."
She has taught advanced fiction writing at St. Mary's University and creative writing at Mount St. Vincent University, and worked as a writing mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Schönmaier has won numerous awards, including the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Award. American, Canadian, Scottish, Dutch and Greek composers have all written and/or are currently writing music based on Schönmaier's poetry. She divides her time between Canada, and coastal Europe.
Awards
Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist
Alfred G. Bailey Award
Earle Birney Prize
Sheldon Currie Fiction Award
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Finalist Best First Book of Poetry, Canada
Bibliography
Passion Fruit Tea Roseway Publishing (1994) ISBN 0-9698407-0-5
Treading Fast Rivers McGill-Queen's University Press (1999) ISBN 0-88629-361-8
Wavelengths of Your Song McGill-Queen's University Press (2013) ISBN 9780886293611
References
External links
- Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia Biography
- Guest Post on Best Canadian Poetry Blog
- Wavelengths of Your Song description
- Treading Fast Rivers description
- Visual Notebook for Wavelengths of Your Song
- Visual Notebook with voice for poem "Knot"
- Twelve or Twenty Questions
- Two Poems
- Poem "Migrations"
- League of Canadian Poets biography
- Review of Wavelengths of Your Song in Arc Poetry Magazine
- Review of Wavelengths of Your Song in Canadian Poetries
- Review of Wavelengths of Your Song in Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment
- Review of Wavelengths of Your Song in The Antigonish Review