Dr. Jeanette Lynes: Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh

Our program director has been very busy during her sabbatical from the MFA in Writing Program. Currently, Dr. Jeanette Lynes is serving as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She'll be there for the months of April and May working on a research project entitled 'The Spectral as Poetic Discourse'.

Lynes' second novel, The Small Things That End The World (Coteau Books) will appear in May 2018. The novel concerns three women and a great deal of bad weather. Her first novel, The Factory Voice (Coteau Books, 2009) was long-listed for The Scotia Bank Giller Prize and a ReLit Award. The story, a work of historical fiction, is inspired by women who built war planes in northern Ontario during World War II. Her seventh book of poetry, Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems received the 2016 Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award. Lynes was also recently a Visiting Fellow at Bard Graduate Center in New York City.

We look forward to hearing all about her time in New York City and Edinburgh when she resumes her position as Program Director later this summer.