Marie Elyse St. George

Marie Elyse St. George, (born December 8, 1929 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian artist and poet. She studied painting, printmaking and drawing at the University of New Hampshire from 1967–72 and studied lithography at the University of Saskatchewan in 1977.

From 1965 to 1973 Marie Elyse St. George taught art at The Art Association in Durham, New Hampshire. She also taught print workshops at the Biggar Community College and the Prince Albert Art Centre in 1980.

She has worked on book jackets for several Canadian writers including Lois Simmie, Bonnie Burnard, and Byrna Barclay. In 1995 she collaborated with Anne Szumigalski on a book titled Voice (published by Coteau Books), which won the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1995. In 2000 Szumigalski and St. George later collaborated on another book titled Fear of Knives: A Book of Fables (published by Hagios).

Her memoir, titled Once in a Blue Moon, won the Saskatchewan Book Award in 2006.She was a participant in the Regina National Poetry Face-off, which aired on CBC Radio in 2009.

• 1996 - Saskatchewan YWCA’s Women of Distinction Award for Arts and Culture.

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