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Micheline Maylor
Calgary Poet Laureate Emeritus
Preceded byDerek Beaulieu
Succeeded bySheri-D Wilson
Personal details
Born
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
SpouseJeff Kovitz KC
OccupationPoet, Academic, Critic, Editor
Websitemichelinemaylor.com

Micheline Maylor (born in 1970) is a Canadian poet, academic, critic and editor.

Education

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Maylor earned a BA (honours) in creative writing with a minor in anthropology from the University of Calgary. She received a master's degree with distinction in creative writing and Canadian literature from Lancaster University, supported by the International Research Scholarship and Overseas Research Scholarship. She completed a PhD in late 20th-century Canadian literature and creative writing at Newcastle University.

Career

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Maylor taught creative writing at Mount Royal University until her retirement in 2022, where she received the Faculty Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015[1] and the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2018.[2]

She co-founded the Freefall Literary Society,[3] serving as editor-in-chief.[4] Since 2012, she has been executive acquisitions editor for poetry at Frontenac House Press, editing works such as Billy-Ray Belcourt's This Wound Is a World[5] (2018 Griffin Poetry Prize winner) and Basma Kavanagh[6]’s Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots[7] (2019 Robert Kroetsch Award (Book Publishers Association of Alberta Award[8]) winner).

Maylor served as Calgary's Poet Laureate from 2016 to 2018[9][10][11] the first woman in the role. She held author-in-residence positions at the Calgary Public Library (2016), Alexandra Writers Centre Society[12] (2017), and Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild[13] (2019).

Poetry

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Maylor has published poetry in over 85 journals across five countries. Her collections include Full Depth: The Raymond Knister Poems (2007, ReLit Award longlist), Whirr and Click (2013, Pat Lowther Award shortlist), Little Wildheart (2017), Robert Kroetsch Award shortlist), the anthology Drifting Like a Metaphor (2018), and The Bad Wife (2021, translated into Italian as La cattiva moglie, Robert Kroetsch Award winner, Raymond Souster Award longlist).

Awards and Honors

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Petra Kenny Award[14] shortlist (poetry), 2007

Geist postcard story contest, 3rd place, 2013[15]

Pat Lowther Award shortlist,[16] 2014

Mount Royal University Faculty Association Excellence in Teaching, 2015[17]

Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Volunteer of the Year, 2020[18]

Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence (Quartet series), 2019/2020[19]

Book Publishers Association of Alberta Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry (The Bad Wife), 2021[20]

Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal, 2022[21]

Selected Bibliography

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Books

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Full Depth: The Raymond Knister Poems (Wolsak and Wynn, 2007) ISBN 1-894987-17-9

Starfish (Rubicon Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0-9812848-9-7

Whirr and Click (Frontenac House, 2013) ISBN 978-1-897181-86-7

Little Wildheart (University of Alberta Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1-77212-233-6

Drifting Like a Metaphor (Frontenac House, ed., 2018) ISBN 978-1-927823-80-4

The Bad Wife University of Alberta Press, 2021) ISBN 978-1-77212-548-1

References

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  1. ↑ "TEA Recipients". Mount Royal Faculty Association. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Past Recipients | MRU". www.mtroyal.ca. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "Canada's Magazine of Exquisite writing. FreeFall is a literary magazine - Calgary, AB". FreeFall Magazine. 21 December 2025. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Editorial Team". FreeFall Magazine. 21 December 2025. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "BOOKS". BILLY-RAY BELCOURT. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Basma Kavanagh". Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. 2 October 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Ruba'iyat for the Time of Apricots – Basma Kavanagh". Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "About". Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  9. ↑ Volmers, Eric (25 April 2016). "Micheline Maylor named Calgary's poet laureate".
  10. ↑ Fletcher, Robson (25 April 2016). "Calgary names Micheline Maylor as its new poet laureate".
  11. ↑ Ly, David (11 November 2016). "The Poets Laureate of Canada". NUVO. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  12. ↑ "Alexandra Writers' Centre". Alexandra Writers' Centre. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  13. ↑ Media, OH!. "Home « Saskatchewan Writers' Guild". skwriter.com. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  14. ↑ "Morgan Kenney, Founder of the Petra Kenney Poetry Competition - Winning Writers". winningwriters.com. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  15. ↑ "And the Winners of the 9th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest are..." www.geist.com. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  16. ↑ "Pat Lowther — Poets.ca". poets.ca. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
  17. ↑ "TEA Recipients". Mount Royal Faculty Association. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  18. ↑ Maylor, Micheline (2020). "VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR" (PDF). /albertamagazines.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ↑ Maylor`, Micheline (10 September 2020). "LOIS HOLE AWARD FOR EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE" (PDF). bookpublishers.ab.ca.
  20. ↑ Berki, Attila (17 September 2022). "2022 Alberta Book Publishing Awards winners announced - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  21. ↑ "Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal Recipients Announced". Retrieved 31 January 2026.
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