Helen Humphreys is a Canadian

Canada

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 poet

Poet

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 and novelist who has written several books. She was born in London

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, England

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, and now lives in Kingston

Kingston, Ontario

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. When she was younger she was kicked out of high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education. Humphreys' first novel, Leaving Earth, and was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998 a winner of the City of Toronto Book Award

City of Toronto Book Award

The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto"....

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Poetry

• Gods and Other Mortals - 1986
• Nuns Looking Anxious
• Listening to Radios
• The Perils of Geography - 1995 (Brick Books)
• Anthem

Novels

• Ethel on Fire - 1991
• Leaving Earth - 1998 (winner of the City of Toronto Book Award
  City of Toronto Book Award
  The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto"....
  
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• Afterimage - 2000 (winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize is a Canadian literary award presented by Rogers Communications and the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries....
  
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• The Lost Garden - 2002
• Wild Dogs - 2004 (also adapted for the stage by Anne Hardcastle in 2008)
• The Frozen Thames - 2007
• Coventry - 2008
• The Reinvention of Love - 2011

Awards

• New York Times Notable Book (1998) for Leaving Earth
• City of Toronto Book Award
  City of Toronto Book Award
  The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto"....
  
   for Leaving Earth
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Afterimage
• Harbourfront Festival Prize (2009)

External links

• Helen Humphreys fonds at Queen's University Archives