Constance Rooke

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Constance Rooke is the President of PEN Canada and editor of two previous PEN Canada anthologies, Writing Away and Writing Home. An academic who has served as Chair of the Department of English and Associate Vice-President Academic at the University of Guelph, and as President of the University of Winnipeg, she is presently Director of the University of Guelphs new Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph-Humber. She is the author of several critical books, including Fear of the Open Heart: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Writing, numerous text books, anthologies, short stories, book chapters, essays, and reviews, and for ten years was Editor of The Malahat Review. She lives in Toronto.

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Writing Life

Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life

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Constance Rooke

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Since they were first published in the mid-1990s, PEN Canadas two previous fundraising anthologies, the widely acclaimed Writing Away and Writing Home, have raised $200,000 in support of PENs vital work on behalf of free speech and writers in prison around the world.