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viii Biographical Note M.Travis Lane is one of Atlantic Canada’s most important poets. She has published nine full-length books of poetry and has received numerous awards, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Bliss Carman Award, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Lane’s published books are: Touch Earth (Guernica, 2006), Keeping Afloat (Guernica, 2001), Night Physics (Brick Books, 1994), Temporary Shelter (Goose Lane, 1993), Solid Things (Cormorant Press, 1989), Reckonings (Goose Lane, 1988), Divinations and Shorter Poems (Fiddlehead Books, 1980), Homecomings (Fiddlehead Books, 1977), Poems 1968–1972 (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973), An Inch of So of Garden (New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1969), and Five Poets (Cornell, 1960). Several of Lane’s poems have been set to music. Millicent Travis was born in 1934, one of two daughters of Colonel W.L. Travis and Elsie Ward Travis. The family moved almost yearly. Millicent graduated from Vassar College in 1956. At Vassar, she served on the editorial board of The Vassar Review. She completed her MA and PhD at Cornell University, where she marked for Vladimir Nabokov, worked as a section leader for M.H. Abrams, and met and married Lauriat Lane Jr. In 1960 the Lanes moved, with their daughter Hannah, to Fredericton, where Lauriat taught in the English department at the University of New Brunswick. Their son Lauriat was born in Fredericton. All the Lanes became Canadian citizens in 1973. M.Travis Lane taught briefly at the University of New Brunswick. She is honorary president of the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick, and in 2004 she was named a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets. She is also a member of Voice of Women for Peace and the Raging Grannies. Lauriat Lane Jr. passed away in 2005. M.Travis Lane lives in Fredericton. ...

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