Katherine Bitney is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry: While You Were Out (Turnstone Press, 1981), Heart and Stone (Turnstone Press, 1989) and Singing Bone (The Muses' Company, 1997), and is currently working on a fourth collection of poems and a joint project to develop a cantata for the boreal. With Andris Taskans, she co-edited A/Cross Sections (MWG, 2007). She has worked as an editor, mentor, and creative writing instructor, as well as arts juror and creative director for literary events for over 30 years in Manitoba. Selections from her work were broadcast on CBC Radio Arts Encounters.
Selected Publications
While You Were Out. (Turnstone Press, 1980).
Heart and Stone. (Turnstone Press, 1989).
Singing Bone. (The Muses Company, 1997).
Selected Anthologies
The Third Taboo: A Collection of Poems on Jealousy. (Cadsby, Heather and Maria Jacobs, eds.,Wolsak and Wynn,
1983)
Towards 2000: Poetry for the Future. (Clark, R.J. and Martha Gould, eds., Fifth House Publishers, 1991).
Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry (Cooley, Dennis, ed., Turnstone
Press, Winnipeg, 1981)
Section Lines: A Manitoba Anthology. (Duncan, Mark, ed., Turnstone Press, 1988).
"Ethics and the Goddess" in Life Ethics in World
Religions (McCance, Dawne, ed., Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1998)
Books in Print
Bitney, Katharine
Mary Heart and Stone. Turnstone Press, 1989. $8.95 ISBN: 0-88801-135-0.
Singing Bone. The Muses Company, 1997. $12.95 ISBN 1-896239-22-6.
While You Were Out. Turnstone Press, 1980. $6.00 ISBN: 0-88801-027-3.
Katherine Bitney, 73 Smithfield Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2V 0B7
kmbitney@mts.net
www.katherinebitney.com