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Margo Wheaton

 

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First name
Margo
Last name
Wheaton
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Bedford
 

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Biography
Margo Wheaton is an award-winning poet and editor and is the author of the poetry collection Rags of Night in Our Mouths (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022). Born and raised in Moncton, she currently lives and writes in Halifax on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq.

Her debut poetry collection The Unlit Path Behind the House (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016) won the Fred Kerner Award (Canadian Authors' Association) for Book of the Year and the Alfred G. Bailey Award from the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. It was also shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the J.M. Abraham Award, the Fred Cogswell Award for Literary Excellence, and the Relit Award. Her poems have been set to original choral music and performed at the University of Toronto.

Margo holds a Masters degree in English and a Certificate in Adult Education, both from Dalhousie University. She currently serves as a poetry editor for The Dalhousie Review and is on the Board of Directors for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
Publications
Rags of Night in Our Mouths (McGill-Queen's, 2022)
Wild Green Light, co-authored with David Adams Richards (Pottersfield, 2021)
The Unlit Path Behind the House (McGill-Queen's, 2016)
Genres
  • Corporate
  • Editing
  • Essays
  • Poetry
  • Technical

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