JEANETTE LYNES is the author of the bestselling novel The Apothecary's Garden, a finalist for a High Plains Book Award and two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her second novel, The Small Things That End the World, won the Fiction Prize at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her first novel, The Factory Voice, was longlisted for the Giller Prize and a ReLit Award. She has also written seven books of poetry. Her forthcoming non-fiction book Apron Apocalypse: Lyric Essays received the John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award.
A settler, Jeanette Lynes grew up on the traditional territory of the People of the Three Fires: the Ojibway, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations of Anishinabek peoples. Since 2011 she has directed the MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis.
Genres: Historical
Novels
Collections
A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (poems) (1999)
Left Fields (poems) (2003)
The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet (poems) (2003)
It's Hard Being Queen (poems) (2008)
The New Blue Distance (poems) (2009)
Archive of the Undressed (poems) (2012)
Bedlam Cowslip (poems) (2015)
Left Fields (poems) (2003)
The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet (poems) (2003)
It's Hard Being Queen (poems) (2008)
The New Blue Distance (poems) (2009)
Archive of the Undressed (poems) (2012)
Bedlam Cowslip (poems) (2015)
Anthologies edited
Award nominations
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Jeanette Lynes recommends
Roar (2023)
Shelley Thompson
"Fire and ash, breath, spirit and mist, forest, river and sea, earth wafting sweet scents of peony, honeysuckle. Shelley Thompson's Roar is a beautiful, deeply immersive story of a family's resilience through loss and their work of healing, and rebuilding, as we follow Don's journey to becoming Dawn and, as her name suggests, a new beginning. A story of thresholds, transformations, and the power of love, Roar is also a story about community; Thompson resists romanticizing it, doesn't shy away from exposing its underbelly -- but she also reveals its capacity for acceptance and change. We've always needed this story but now we need it more than ever."
The Virgins of Venice (2022)
Gina Buonaguro
"A gripping, textured, meticulously researched tale of women's lives in the watery world of early sixteenth-century Venice, a place of beauty but also rigid social stratification. . . . We encounter a vivid array of women from various walks of life who struggle for survival, agency, and love, and who often risk everything to break out of society's constraints and expectations that define them. Compelling, heart-wrenching. Unputdownable."
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