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Rob Whelan
Kirsteen MacLeod
BIO
Biography

Kirsteen MacLeod is a writer and movement teacher (yoga, Feldenkrais Method), who leads 'body-inspired writing' workshops. Her first poetry chapbook is forthcoming from Alfred Gustav Press. Her nonfiction book, In Praise of Retreat, won a Gold Independent Book Publishers' Award in 2021, and Toronto Star praised her book of short stories, The Animal Game, as "an engaging debut collection." Kirsteen divides her time between her lakeside city, Kingston, Ontario, and a riverside cabin in the woods near Bancroft, Ontario. A native Glaswegian, she has also lived in Toronto and Brazil. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been featured in Canadian journals, magazines and anthologies, and her work has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award (creative nonfiction & poetry), the Writers’ Union prose award, Arc's 'Poem of the Year', and national magazine awards. Kirsteen has a BAA in Magazine writing from Toronto Metropolitan University. Visit her website at www.kirsteenmacleod.ca.  

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http://www.kirsteenmacleod.ca
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