Lorri Neilsen Glenn

Who is Lorri Neilsen Glenn?

Lorri Neilsen Glenn is a Canadian poet, ethnographer and essayist. Born and raised on the Prairies, she moved to Nova Scotia in 1983.

Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of several books on literacy and ethnography, scholarly and freelance articles on women and literacy, and book reviews in national and international journals and newspapers.

Her first book of poetry, All the Perfect Disguises, was published in 2003. In 2007, a chapbook, Saved String and the collection Combustion were published. Neilsen Glenn published 'Lost Gospels' in 2010. A collection of essays on poetry and loss, Threading Light, was published in 2011 by Hagios Press. The best-selling anthology of poetry and prose about mothers, "Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s" was published in 2013 by Guernica Editions.

Neilsen Glenn was appointed poet laureate for the Halifax Regional Municipality in 2005, a role she held through 2009. She lives in Halifax, and teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University. Neilsen Glenn is the recipient of several awards for her scholarship; her poetry has won or has been shortlisted for the National Magazine Awards, Short Grain Contest, CBC Literary Awards, Bliss Carman Poetry Award, CV2 Poetry Contest, The Malahat Open Season Award, among others. Her creative nonfiction has won awards in Grain, Event Magazine, and Prairie Fire.