Maureen Hynes

Who is Maureen Hynes?

Maureen Hynes is a Canadian poet.

Hynes’s debut collection of poetry, Rough Skin, won the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry by a Canadian in 1996. Her second collection, Harm’s Way, was published by Brick Books in 2001, and her third, Marrow, Willow, arrived in April 2011 from Pedlar Press in Toronto.

She is also a winner of the Petra Kenney Poetry Prize. Her poems have been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in over twenty anthologies. Hynes's poem "The Last Cigarette" was chosen as one of 50 poems for Best Canadian Poetry in English, and her poem "The Poison Colour" was longlisted for the same collection in 2011, edited by Priscila Uppal. Her work has appeared in notable Canadian literary journals including The Malahat, The Fiddlehead, Arc, The Literary Review of Canada, Descant, Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review and Queen's Quarterly.

She has edited and co-edited several collections of poetry and is poetry editor for Our Times, Canada's national labour magazine.