Gwendolyn MacEwen is a versatile writer who has given poetry readings across Canada and published regularly in Canadian literary magazines and journals. Her work has been widely anthologized, and many of her radio plays, verse dramas, and documentaries have been broadcast on CBC Radio. Readers of her poetry and fiction are immediately impressed by the incantatory power of her language and imagery and by the unusual, at times exotic, nature of her subjects. More than most other contemporary Canadian writers, MacEwen has explored the powerful world of the human psyche and revealed its existence at the heart of mundane reality.

MacEwen, the daughter of Alick James and Elsie Mitchell MacEwen, was born in Toronto where she now leads a quiet, private life devoted primarily to writing. She was educated there and in Winnipeg but left school at eighteen to concentrate on writing. Since then she has traveled widely...