Brenda GunnBrenda Gunn resumed two passions-creative writing and family history-when she retired in 2017 after more than thirty years teaching elementary and special education with Edmonton Public Schools. Brenda's first ever submission won the Parkland Poets' 019 Haiku contest and was painted on the sidewalk outside Stony Plain City Hall, and her most recent prose poem is featured on the back of a beer can!Since she completed a certificate in creative writing with the University of Toronto, Brenda's poems have won the Polar Expressions and Dr. William Henry Drummond national poetry contests, and appear in local, national and international journals and anthologies, including South Africa's Quilled Ink Review; Human to Human Pandemic Anthology, UK; tsaunders publications, UK; POETRYXHUNGER online; the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute's Dispatches from Quarantine, Canadian Stories; and the Edmonton Public Library's Capital City Press. Two collections were long listed for the Palette Poetry and Meadowlark Books Birdy chapbook prizes, and Brenda's full-length collection, Florilegia, twice charted on the Audreys Books Edmonton weekly poetry bestseller list after its release in 2024.Brenda is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, the Ontario Poetry Society, the Alberta and Saskatchewan Writer's Guilds, Parkland Poets and the Edmonton Stroll of Poets. Read More Read Less