Jenoff, Marvyne

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Jenoff, Marvyne

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        1942-

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        Born in Winnipeg on 10 March, 1942, Marvyne Jenoff graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1964. She also studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and the Sheridan College School of Design. She taught English as a second language from 1960 to 1996.

        Her books include No Lingering Peace (1972), Hollandsong (1975), New Poet's Handbook (1984), The Orphan and the Stranger (1985), The Emperor's Body (1995), Embracing Minutiae (2014), The Leg and I (2018), So Far: A Writing Life (2019), Climbing the Rain (2022), and The Truth and the Earring (2023). She was the Fiction Editor of Waves from 1980 to 1985 and was a regular contributor to Montage, a MENSA newsletter from 1995 to 1998. Her poems and fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian magazines.

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        2015-6-2

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