Eleonore Schönmaier's forthcoming collection is Rush of Wingspan (2026, McGill-Queen's University Press). The music-theater production Field Guide [to the Lost Flower] in collaboration with the Greek composer Michalis Paraskakis is based on text from Field Guide to the Lost Flower (2021, MQUP),  and was premiered at the Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2025. Wavelengths of Your Song (2013, MQUP) was published in German translation as Wellenlängen deines Liedes in 2020 by parasitenpresse (Cologne).  Dust Blown Side of the Journey (2017, MQUP) was a finalist for the Eyelands Book Awards (Greece). Treading Fast Rivers (MQUP) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. 

Schönmaier has taught advanced fiction courses at St. Mary's University, creative writing at Mount Saint Vincent University, and has worked as a poetry mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. 

Her poetry has been set to music by Canadian, Dutch, Scottish, American and Greek composers including Dorothy Chang, Panos Gklistis, Emily Doolittle, Carmen Braden, and Michalis Paraskakis. She has performed her poetry in concert with the New European Ensemble among others. 

She has been honoured with the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, the National Broadsheet Contest, and the CBC Poetry Prize (finalist) among others. 

Published in the Academy of American Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day booklet in 2018 and 2021, and the League of Canadian Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day Brochure in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2023. She has also been widely anthologised in the United States and Canada including in Best Canadian Poetry.