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   Daphne Marlatt (née Buckle) was born in Melbourne Australia in 1942. Moving to Penang, Malaysia when Daphne was three years old, the family emigrated to North Vancouver in 1951. After graduating from high school, Marlatt studied English at the University of British Columbia from 1960 to 1964 and it was there that she became one of the editors of TISH in 1963. In 1964 she left Vancouver with her husband to pursue a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Indiana. After completing her degree in 1968 and having spent several years living in Wisconsin and California, Marlatt separated from her husband in 1970 and returned to Vancouver for good.

   Over the last thirty years, Marlatt has published a variety of works which demonstrate her wide range of interests and ability to move between genres with apparent ease. She has published two works of non-fiction, Steveston recollected: a Japanese-Canadian history (1975) and Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End (1980), which stem from her work as an oral historian with the British Columbia Provincial Archives, has edited a number of literary journals and magazines including The Capilano Review, Periodics, Island and, along with Barbara Godard, Kathy Mezei, and Gail Scott, was a member of the editorial collective for Tessera. She has written a number of critically acclaimed works of prose fiction: two novels, Ana Historic (1988) and Taken (1996); and Zocalo, originally published in 1977 as a short novel and later collected with How Hug a Stone (1983) and "Month of Hungry Ghosts" to form the 1993 collection ghost works. Still perhaps best known as a poet, Marlatt has published fourteen books of poetry: Frames of a story (1968), Leafs/leafs (1969), Rings (1971), Vancouver poems (1972), Steveston (1974), Our lives (1975), What matters: writing 1968-70 (1980), Net work: selected writing (1980), Here & there (1981), How Hug a Stone (1983), Touch to my tongue (1984), Salvage (1991), and, in collaboration with Betsy Warland, Double negative (1988) and Two women in a birth (1994).

   As a teacher, Daphne Marlatt has also taken what she has learned as a writer and shared it with aspiring writers. While the West Coast of Canada remains her home base to this day, she has spent several years as a "writer in residence" at a number of different Canadian universities, including the University of Alberta and the University of Western Ontario. She currently lives in Victoria, B.C.

• Daphne Marlatt: a selected bibliography

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