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Maureen Hynes
Maureen Hynes lives in Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt territory/Toronto. Her first poetry collection, Rough Skin, won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry. Her 2016 collection, The Poison Colour, was shortlisted for the League’s Pat Lowther and Raymond Souster Awards. Maureen’s fifth book of poetry, Sotto Voce, was a finalist for the Lowther Award and the Golden Crown Literary Award for lesbian writers (U.S.). Her poetry has been included in over 30 anthologies, including in Best Canadian Poems in English (2010, 2016 and 2020), and in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2017 and 2021).