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Carolyne Van Der Meer

Carolyne Van Der Meer is Montreal-based journalist, public relations professional and university lecturer who lived Ottawa during her undergraduate student days at University of Ottawa. Her articles, essays, short stories and poems have been published internationally. She is the author of Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience (WLUP, 2014), Journeywoman (Inanna, 2017) and Heart of Goodness: The Life of Marguerite Bourgeoys in 30 Poems | Du coeur à l’âme : La vie de Marguerite Bourgeoys en 30 poèmes (Guernica Editions, 2020). This book, for which she translated her own poems into French, was awarded second prize in the Poetry Category of the Catholic Media Association's 2021 Annual Book Awards and was a finalist in the Specialty Books category of The Word Guild’s 2021 annual Word Awards. Her fourth book, a full-length poetry collection, Sensorial, was published by Inanna in 2022.

Hysterectomy, Montreal Hospital published in Bywords.ca October 2022