Bronwen Wallace was a Canadian poet and short story writer. Wallace was born in Kingston, Ontario. She attended Queen's University, Kingston. In 1970, she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she founded a women's bookstore and became active in working class and women's activist groups. In 1977, she returned to Kingston, where she worked at a women's shelter and taught at St. Lawrence College and Queen's. She wrote a weekly column for the Kingston Whig-Standard. In 1988, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario. Her collections testify to her social activism involving women's rights, civil rights, and social policy. A primary focus of her work was violence against women and children. In a series of letters published in 1994 as Two Women Talking: Correspondence 1985-1987, Wallace and poet Erin Mour� discuss feminist theory. Mour� defends the language philosophers who demonstrate that our speech, and the concepts expressible in language, governs our knowledge and actions. However, Wallace disagreed that language-centred writing rescues women from the patriarchy, claiming that it can be easily co-opted by patriarchs. 

May 26th, 1945 in Kingston  /  Died:   Aug 25th, 1989