Judith Fitzgerald

Poet, editor, cultural critic, music columnist, sportswriter, and Contributing reviewer to The Globe and Mail's BOOKS section, Judith Fitzgerald additionally blogs on the news that stays news for The Globe's "In Other Words." Poet by vocation, literary journalist by avocation, Fitzgerald's first slim volume, a chapbook entitled City Park (Northern Concept), appeared during the latter half of her high-school years (in an edition of 300 copies); 35 years later, she continues to write and publish both poetry and prose in various media (from poetry, biography, and children's books to essays, reviews, profiles, and interviews). A Poetry Fellow of the Chalmers Arts Foundation, the reclusive benign eccentric's works, short-listed for (or recipient of) several major honours, the Fiona Mee, Trillium, Governor-General's Poetry, and Writers’ Choice Awards among others, recently completed The Adagios Quartet (Oberon), a four-book long poem ten years in the making and, Marshall McLuhan: Wise Guy (Dundurn) / Marshall McLuhan: Un Visionnaire (XYZ). The ex-Torontonian now calls Northern Ontario's Almaguin Highlands home, currently works on a new volume of poetry (Oberon), and heads up Judith Fitzgerald Presents . . . under the Cranberry Tree Press imprint. ( Fitzgerald, Editor-in-Chief of limited-edition cut-above chapbooks which feature cover artwork by Leonard Cohen, will not publish her own work.)

Appearances at BookFestWindsor:
November 6, 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. (Wilkinson)