ACORN PRESS PUBLISHER
Laurie Brinklow
Acorn Press founder, owner, and publisher Laurie
Brinklow is a transplanted Islander who set down roots in Prince
Edward Island in 1983 after growing up on Canada's West Coast.
Laurie cut her eye-teeth in publishing with Ragweed
Press in Charlottetown and went on to serve as editor and publishing
co-ordinator for the Institute of Island Studies. She continues
to work as a publishing co-ordinator in the Graphics Department
at the University of Prince Edward Island, where she is also completing
her Master of Arts in Island Studies with a focus on the literature
of small islands.
Brinklow is author of Prince
Edward Island Memories and of The Prince
Edward Island Colour Guide. She is co-editor of Message
in a Bottle: The Literature of Small Islands.
She is an award-winning poet, with poems collected
in a chapbook (Scars, published in the Saturday Morning Chapbooks
series) and published in Canadian and Australian journals. In her
spare time, she reads, writes, sings, and plays music with friends.
She lives in Charlottetown with her two daughters,
Heather and Mikhala.
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