Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers of Victoria, B.C., is a broadcaster, teacher, journalist, poet, novelist and songwriter. For fiction and poetry she has received the BC Centennial Prize, Monday Fiction Award, Stephen Leacock Poetry Prize, the Reuben Rose Poetry Prize (Israel), the Dorothy Livesay Award, the Hawthorne Poetry Prize, the Saltwater Festival Prize, the People's Poetry Prize, and was co-winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. Her journalistic work ranges from reviews, interviews and...See more

Linda Rogers of Victoria, B.C., is a broadcaster, teacher, journalist, poet, novelist and songwriter. For fiction and poetry she has received the BC Centennial Prize, Monday Fiction Award, Stephen Leacock Poetry Prize, the Reuben Rose Poetry Prize (Israel), the Dorothy Livesay Award, the Hawthorne Poetry Prize, the Saltwater Festival Prize, the People's Poetry Prize, and was co-winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. Her journalistic work ranges from reviews, interviews and critical essays about literary, musical, dance and visual artists. She has edited several anthologies, and her work has been translated worldwide. She has served as President of the League of Canadian Poets and the BC Federation of Writers and was Canada's People's Poet in 2000. See less