(rare signed 1985 Oberon pb; cover: Herzl Kashetsky)
Born in Kingston, ON, Bronwen Wallace (1945-1989) wrote poetry, stories, and essays. Interested in social activism, she founded a woman’s bookstore in 1977 and worked at a women’s shelter. Later she was a writer-in-residence at University of Western ON. Wallace’s promising career was cut short by cancer in 1989. I selected her poem “Splitting It Up” for Inside Poetry, 2nd. ed. (Harcourt)