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Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
About Shannon Bramer
- Shannon Bramer (born 1973) is a Canadian poet.
- Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she attended York University before publishing her first book, suitcases and other poems, which won the Hamilton and Region Arts Council Book Award.
- Over the next few years, she resided in Guelph, Ontario, where she helped found the Bookshelf Poetry Contest. Settling in Toronto, Bramer published scarf in 2001, a book of poems which tells the story of Vera, a single woman working in a scarf store in Hamilton.
- scarf received praise from Canadian literary critics, perhaps exemplified by the Antigonish Review's comment that it is an "intriguing book about loneliness and searching".
- 2005 saw Bramer's first book of poems published by Coach House Books, The Refrigerator Memory.
- Incorporating a broad range of imagery, the poems in The Refrigerator Memory were also well received.
- Currently, Bramer lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters.
- Her latest publication is the full-length collection of poetry, Precious Energy.
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