Jill Hartman Bio

Jill Hartman’s first book of poetry, A Painted Elephant (Coach House 2003) was shortlisted for the Stephan J. Stephansson Award and Gerald Lampert Award. She has been Fiction Editor at filling Station, Editor at dANDelion, and has her own imprint “semi-precious press”. She has performed extensively throughout Canada, most recently at Edmonton’s Olive Reading Series, Toronto’s Lexiconjury and The Calgary International Spoken Word Festival. Recently she had work appear in two important Canadian poetry anthologies (Shift and Switch, Mercury, and Post Prairie, Talonbooks), and her collaborative poetic text The Booty (with Brea Burton) is forthcoming from Mercury Press, fall 2007.