Beth Goobie

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Beth Goobie (born 1959 Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian poet, and writer.

Life

She graduated from University of Iowa, and the Mennonite Brethren Bible College. She worked in Edmonton in the child welfare system.

Her work appeared in Fiddlehead, Malahat Review and Quarry.[1]

She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Awards

  • 1994 R. Ross Annett Juvenile Fiction Award for Mission Impossible.
  • 1995 Pat Lowther Award
  • 2000 Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book Award, for Before Wings

Works

Poetry

  • Scars of Light. Edmonton: NeWest. 1994. ISBN 0-920897-73-8. 
  • The girls who dream me: poems. Pedlar Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9681884-6-0. 

Short Stories

  • Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please?. Edmonton: NeWest Press. 1991. ISBN 0-920897-09-6. 

Young Adult fiction

  • Group Homes From Outer Space. Don Mills, Ontario: Maxwell Macmillan Canada. 1992. ISBN 0-02-954093-3. 
  • Kicked Out. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall Canada. 1995. ISBN 0-13-234378-9. 
  • Mission Impossible. Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press. 1994. ISBN 0-88995-114-4. 
  • Who Owns Kelly Paddik?. Illustrator Greg Ruhl. Don Mills, Ontario: Maxwell Macmillan Canada. 1993. ISBN 0-02-954176-X. 
  • Flux. Custer, Washington.: Orca Book Publishers. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55143-314-1. 
  • Fixed. Custer, Washington.: Orca Book Publishers. 2005. ISBN 978-1-55143-374-5. 
  • The Lottery (Beth Goobie). Vancouver, BC.: Orca Book Publishers. 2002. ISBN 978-1-55143-238-0. 

Before Wings

  • Template:Born Ugly

References

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