Lorna Crozier is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. Crozier attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received her B.A. in 1969, and the University of Alberta where she received her M.A. in 1980. Before publishing her poems and stories, Crozier was a high school English teacher and guidance counsellor. During these years, her first poem was published in Grain magazine. She also taught creative writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts, the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, and the Sechelt Summer Writing Festival. Crozier has served as the writer-in-residence at the Cypress Hills Community College in 1983, the Regina Public Library, and the University of Toronto in 1989. Crozier has authored 15 books of work, which typically focus on human relationships, the natural world, language, and memory and perception. Alongside partner Patrick Lane, Crozier has co-authored, No Longer Two People, and co-edited Breathing Fire: Canada?s New Poets, and Breathing Fire 2. 

May 24th, 1948 in Swift Current (Age 76)