Recent Mistakes

Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).
Recent Mistakes is full of stunning metaphor, erotic imagery and precise langauge.
"This is a wonderful book, the words pushing at the limits of the lines, the poems overflowing the pages with the urgency of their invention."
--Malahat Review

Jan Horner's first collection of poetry, Recent Mistakes (Turnstone Press), won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Her second collection, Elizabeth Went West (Turnstone Press), was a finalist for the same prize. Jan was also a finalist for the John Hirsch Award. She was a member of the editorial collective of Contemporary Verse 2 and has served on the boards of the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the League of Canadian Poets and as a juror for many literary awards. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Manitoba and her Masters of Library Science from the University of Toronto. Jan lives in Winnipeg and is a reference librarian at the University of Manitoba.