Eleonore Schönmaier

Eleonore Schönmaier is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Career

Eleonore Schönmaier is the author of the poetry collections "Wavelengths of Your Song" (2013) and "Treading Fast Rivers" (1999), and the fiction collection "Passion Fruit Tea" (1994). Her award winning poems have been published widely in literary magazines in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including Grain, Event, "Descant", Prairie Schooner, and Stand and have been translated into Dutch and German. Her work is widely anthologized, and her poem "Weightless" was selected for "The Best Canadian Poetry 2010."

She has taught advanced fiction writing at St. Mary's University and creative writing at Mount St. Vincent University, and worked as a writing mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Schönmaier has won numerous awards, including the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Award. American, Canadian, Scottish, Dutch and Greek composers have all written and/or are currently writing music based on Schönmaier's poetry. She divides her time between Canada, and coastal Europe.

Awards

Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist

Alfred G. Bailey Award

Earle Birney Prize

Sheldon Currie Fiction Award

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Finalist Best First Book of Poetry, Canada