Eleonore Schönmaier


Eleonore Schönmaier is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.

Career

Eleonore Schönmaier is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Dust Blown Side of the Journey, Wavelengths of Your Song , and Treading Fast Rivers. Her award winning poems have been published widely in literary magazines in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including Grain, Event, Descant, Prairie Schooner, Magma, and Stand and have been translated into Dutch and German. Her work is widely anthologized, and her poem "Weightless" was published in Best Canadian Poetry.
Schönmaier has taught advanced fiction writing at St. Mary's University and creative writing at Mount St. Vincent University, and has worked as a writing mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Schönmaier has won numerous awards, including the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Award. American, Canadian, Scottish, Dutch and Greek composers have all written music based on Schönmaier's poetry including Michalis Paraskakis, Carmen Braden and Emily Doolittle. The New European Ensemble, and the St. Andrews New Music Ensemble have performed her poetry in concert.

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