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Margo LaPierre
BIO
Biography

Margo LaPierre is a Canadian freelance editor and author of Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes (Guernica Editions, 2017). She is newsletter editor of Arc Poetry Magazine and a member of poetry collective VII, who jointly authored Towers (Collusion Books, 2021) and Holy Disorder of Being (Gap Riot Press, 2022). She won the 2021 Room Magazine Poetry Award and the 2020 subTerrain Lush Triumphant Fiction Award. She was shortlisted in the 2021 Fiddlehead Creative Nonfiction Contest and was a finalist in the 2020 TWUC Short Prose Competition, the 2020 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Award, and the 2021 Short Grain Contest for Fiction. Her multi-genre work has been published in the /temz/ Review, Room, Arc, filling Station, CAROUSEL, PRISM International, carte blanche and others. She is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. Find her on Twitter @margolapierre.

ADDRESS
City: Ottawa, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Literary Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2017
Title
Towers
Publisher
Collusion Books
Year
2021
Title
Holy Disorder of Being
Publisher
Gap Riot Press
Year
2022
AWARDS
Awards
Name
1st Prize: Poetry Contest judged by Kama La Mackerel
Publication
Room Magazine
Year
2021
Name
1st Prize: Lush Triumphant Fiction Award
Publication
subTerrain Magazine
Year
2020
Name
Shortlisted: Creative Nonfiction Contest judge by Chelene Knight
Publication
The Fiddlehead
Year
2021
Name
2nd Prize: Poetry in an Alberta Magazine
Publication
Alberta Magazine Publishers Awards
Year
2018
LINKS
Links
Margo LaPierre's website
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