When I picked up writing again four years ago, I leaned hard into poetry, but my mentor, the amazing Jason Schneiderman, spotted right away that a short piece I sent him to read last winter was the beginnings of a short memoir.
Dagne Forrest lives and works in a small town just west of Canada's capital. She shares her life with several other humans, an athletic labrador retriever who suffers from separation anxiety, three cats, and a small flock of chickens. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. In 2021 she was one of 15 poets featured in Canada’s Poem in Your Pocket campaign.
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