A classically trained vocalist who spent a decade singing country rock in small-town
BC bars, a big city Vancouver girl who shears sheep and plants corn in the
country on Vancouver Island, an exacting university writing teacher by day
and raucous hockey aficionado by night: Lorna Jackson is full of the sort of
contradictions that make for bright, original writing.
After the saloon singing years, Jackson returned to university to pursue
degrees in English and take writing classes with Jack Hodgins and Mark Anthony
Jarman. By the end of her student years at UVic, she had published a collection
of short stories, Dressing for Hope (Gooselane Editions, 1995) and
was teaching in the departments of English and Writing. Her first novel, A
Game to Play on the Tracks (Porcupine's Quill) was published in 2003.
She has been a columnist for Quill and Quire magazine, a contributor
to the Georgia
Straight, and serves on the editorial board of Malahat Review.
Her writing—fiction and creative nonfiction—has appeared in such magazines
as Brick, The
Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Canadian Notes and Queries,
and Canadian Fiction Magazine. She is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Writing at UVic.
