Nancy Bauer, née Nancy Luke (born 1934) is a Canadian female writer and editor who writes about craftspeople, visual artists, and writers for various maritime magazines.

Born north of Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, Bauer received her B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 in English from Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College

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 in 1956.
She moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

 in 1965.

From 1967 until 1983, Bauer was the publisher of 25 New Brunswick Chapbook

Chapbook

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She founded the Maritime Writers Workshop, and has served as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick

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, the Cape Cod Writers Conference, East Word One, and Bemidji State University

Bemidji State University

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She is married to Bill Bauer

Bill Bauer

William Bauer is a U.S.-born poet who immigrated with his wife, Nancy Bauer, to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1965.-Works:*A Migration now Largely Forgotten , Fiddlehead*If I Don’t Tell You, No One Else Will , Fiddlehead...

, writer and retired professor.
She now is writing articles in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal

Telegraph-Journal

The Telegraph-Journal is a daily newspaper published in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It publishes a hybrid newspaper, serving as a provincial daily while catering to the Saint John audience in its City and Sports sections. The newspaper is published by Brunswick News, owned by J. K. Irving...

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Awards

• 2nd prize, CBC Literary Competition, 1982.
• Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts, 1999.

Selected bibliography

• "Finding a pattern with soothing words", New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, February 6th, 2010
• "A matter of joining forces", New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, April 25th, 2009

• Flora, Write this Down. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1982.
• Wise Ears. Ottawa: Oberon, 1985.
• The Opening Eye. Ottawa: Oberon, 1988.
• Samara, the Wholehearted. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1991.
• The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1994.