WORKS

POETRY

Marrying the Sea. London, ON: Brick Books, 1998.

White of the Lesser Angels. PEI: Ragweed Press, 1986.

OTHER WORKS

Dark Ghost in the Corner: Imagining Ukrainian-Canadian Identity. Saskatoon: Heritage Press, 2005.

Thieves: A Novel of Katherine Mansfield. Toronto: HarperFlamingo, 2004.

Anna's Goat. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, 2000.

Kulyk Keefer, Janice, and Solomea Pavlychko, eds. Two Lands, New Visions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine. Regina: Coteau Books, 1998.

Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family. Toronto: HarperFlamingo, 1998.

The Green Library. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996.

Kulyk Keefer, Janice, Richard E. Sherwin and Danielle Schaub, eds. Precarious Present/ Promising Future?: Ethnicity and Identities in Canadian Literature. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1996.

Rest Harrow. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1992.

Travelling Ladies. Toronto: Random House, 1990.

Reading Mavis Gallant. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Constellations. Toronto: Random House, 1988.

Transfigurations. Carlottetown, PEI: Ragweed Press, 1987.

Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.

The Paris-Napoli Express. Ottawa: Oberon, 1986.
CRITICISM

Clayton, Cherry. “Finding the Other Family: A Profile of Janice Kulyk Keefer.” Books In Canada 27.8 (1998): 40-41.

Clayton, Cherry. “Interview with Janice Kulyk Keefer.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34.1 (1999): 183-197.

“Divided Loyalties: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travels Through Life and Literature Prove that you Can Come Home Again.” Books In Canada 19.6 (1990): 18-21.

Howells, Coral A. “Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travelling Ladies (for Simone Vauthier).” British Journal of Canadian
Studies 7.2 (1992): 415-425.

“Isolation Helps Nurture Keefer’s Writing.” Globe and Mail (Metro Edition) 28 Oct 1987: C5.

“Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Twin Speaks.” Images 9.5 (1992): 54.

Kulyk Keefer, Janice. “What I’d Be If I Were Not a Writer: Janice Kulyk Keefer.” Brick 50 (1994): 25.

Mulhallen, Karen. “The Reaching of the Poetic Field.” Canadian Literature 166 (2000): 175-79.

Nicholson, Colin. “Grain of the Actual: Janice Kulyk Keefer and Her Writing.” British Journal of Canadian
Studies 7.2 (1992): 397-414.

Panofsky, Ruth. Rev. of Marrying the Sea, by Janice Kulyk Keefer. Quill & Quire 64.9 (1998): 56.

Robb, Nancy. “Kulyk Keefer’s Rising Star: Five Books in Three Genres in One Year.” Quill & Quire 53.7 (1987):
69-70.

Schaub, Danielle. “Acadian Estrangement and Reunion: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s ‘April Showers’.” Tricks With a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in Canada. Eds. Rocio G. Davis and Rosalia Baena. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2000.

Spalding, Esta. “A Conversation with Janice Kulyk Keefer.” Interview. Brick 55 (1996): 31-38.

DISSERTATIONS

Marald, Elisabeth A. “In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's Travels.” Dissertation. Umea University, 1996.

AWARDS

1990: National Magazine Award, poetry, first prize

1994: National Magazine Award, poetry, first prize

1999: Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, Marrying the Sea

1991: Malahat Long Poem Prize, “Isle of Demons”
BIOGRAPHY
Janice Kulyk Keefer was born in 1952 in Toronto, Ontario. She was educated in England and France. Kulyk Keefer writes fiction and children’s literature as well as poetry, and her work has twice been nominated for a Governor General’s Award. Marrying the Sea, Kulyk Keefer's 1998 collection, won the 1999 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. Her poem “Isle of Demons” won the Malahat Long Poem Prize. Kulyk Keefer currently lives in Eden Mills, and teaches at the University of Guelph.

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