Sylvia Legris

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Sylvia Legris (born 1960) is a Canadian poet.

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has published three volumes of poetry, the third of which, Nerve Squall, won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award.

Legris has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses Series and in 2001 won the Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize for Fishblood Sky. Legris also received an Honourable Mention in the poetry category of the 2004 National Magazine Awards.

[edit] Works

• ash petals (chapbook) 1996
• Circuitry of Veins 1996
• Iridium Seeds 1998
• Nerve Squall 2005 - (winner of 2006 Pat Lowther Award, winner of the 2006 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Award)

[edit] External links

• Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• Globe and Mail interview - A Poet’s Winning Season, by Patricia Robertson
• The Danforth Review - review of Nerve Squall