Alice Major

Alice Major was born in the ship-building, whiskey-brewing town of Dumbarton, Scotland. She grew up in Toronto, then came to Western Canada to work as a newspaper reporter in Williams Lake, B.C. She now lives in Edmonton, Alberta with her husband and two cats, and makes her living as a freelance writer.

Her work has appeared widely in Canadian literary magazines. Her first collection of poetry, Time Travels Light, was published by Rowan Books (Edmonton) in 1992. Since then, she has published two chapbooks Complete within herself,? issued by the Hawthorne Society (Victoria, B.C.) and ?Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Cafe,? which won the 1998 Shaunt Basmajian award sponsored by the Canadian Poetry Association.

She is a past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and currently vice-president of the League of Canadian Poets.

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