Shawna Lemay is the author of five books of poetry, All the God-Sized Fruit (McGill-Queen's University Press), Against Paradise (McClelland & Stewart), Still (self-published), Blue Feast (NeWest Press), and Red Velvet Forest (The Muses' Company). Her first book of essays is titled Calm Things (Palimpsest Press) which was short-listed for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction in 2009.
She has a BA in Honors English and an MA in English, both from the University of Alberta. All the God-Sized Fruit won both the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She has two blogs: Capacious Hold-All and Calm Things. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta with her partner, Robert Lemay, a visual artist, their daughter Chloe and their well-walked black labrador retriever, Ace.
She has on occasion been asked: did you know
that your eyes don't match? Yes, she does.
This is known as sectoral heterochromia.
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