Avison, Margaret

One of Canada's most respected poets, Margaret Avison was born in Galt, Ontario, lived in Western Canada in her childhood, and has since lived in Toronto. In a productive career that stretches back to the 1940s, she has produced seven books of poems, including her first collection, "Winter Sun" (1960), which she selected in Chicago when she was there on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and which won the Governor General's Award.