Cornelia Hoogland is a Canadian poet. She lives on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, but also divides her time between London, ON. Alongside her former work as a professor at the University of Western Ontario, Hoogland has performed and worked internationally in the areas of poetry and theatre. She is the founder and the co-artistic director of Poetry London, a literary periodical in London.

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Works

Poetry

Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) is Hoogland's 6th book of poetry, and is based on the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.[1] Crow (Black Moss Press), was also released in 2011.[2] Her newest selection, a chapbook titled Gravelly Bay (Alfred Gustav Press, 2012), is set at the ferry terminal on Denman Island.

Theater

Hoogland adapted Woods Wolf Girl for stage as Faim de Loup, which was dramaturged by Gil Garret and Susan Ferley and included in the 2012 PlayWrights Cabaret at the Grand Theatre in London, ON.[3] Faim de Loup was selected for inclusion in the 2012 Women Playwrights International Conference, and performed as Talking in Bed.[4][5]

Hoogland's play, Country of my Skin won the Adjudicators Choice Award at the London One-Act Festival in 2004, Lesleigh Turner, Director. Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 "Country" traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia to the Women Playwrights International conference. Her published play for children – Salmonberry: A West Coast Fairy Tale (International Plays for Young Audiences, Meriwether, 2000) – was performed at the 1999 International Women Playwrights Conference in Athens.

Awards

Hoogland's poem, called Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway has been shortlisted for the 2017 CBC literacy awards;[6] the nominations include the 2012 nonfiction shortlist nomination for Sea Level. Also shortlisted are selections from her books Cuba Journal as well as her second and third books of poetry You Are Home and Marrying the Animals. Her awards include finalist placements for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Award, The Broome Review (USA); The Malahat Review Long Poem Competition; and Descant's Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem. Her writing in the area of Aboriginal, place-based education was featured in a 2011 interview with C. M. Rubin.[7]

Bibliography

• The Wire - Thin Bride - 1990
• Marrying the Animals - 1995
• You are Home - 2001
• Cuba Journal: Language and Writing - 2003
• Second Marriage. Canadian Poetry Association, 2005 ISBN 1-55253-061-2
• Woods Wolf Girl - Wolsak and Wynn, 2011
• "Crow" - Black Moss Press, 2011

References

External links

• Cornelia's Homepage
• 'Woods Wolf Girl' Homepage
• 'Crow' Homepage
• Poetry London Homepage
• Cornelia's other Homepage