NANCY LOU CANYON
1000 Harris Avenue, #6 s Bellingham, WA 98225
360-710-7139 nancy@nancycanyon.com
s www.nancycanyon.com
Education
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, August 2007 – Pacific Lutheran
University Tacoma , WA
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, (Psych/Art Therapy), 1993 – Marylhurst University,
Portland, OR AOS Visual Communication,
1989 – N.W. College of Art, Poulsbo, WA
Painting Classes--Spokane Falls Community
College & Spokane Art School, 70s
& 80s
Additional
Training
Excellence
Northwest’s Strategies for Excellence Series, 2007 – Bellingham ,
WA
Certificate in Fiction Writing, 2000 – University
of Washington Seattle , WA
Authentic Movement Training, 1989-2003 – Port Townsend ,
WA
Artist
Residencies
Whiteley Center, 2009, Friday Harbor, WA F
Artsmith Artist Residency, 2012 &2008. Orcas Island, WA
Centrum
Artist Residency, 2012 & 2007. Port Townsend, WA
Teaching
Experience
· Collage Class,
Private, Fairhaven, WA
· Illustrated Journal, Whatcom Community College
· Creative Writing Classes, Whatcom Community College
· Writing Practice Instruction and Coach, Bellingham, WA
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Publications
Publications
Prose Publications
Popcorn Farm, 2014 “Popcorn List”
Able Muse, 2010 “A Terrible Storm”
Water-Stone Review, 2010 “Take Down & Escape”
Fourth Genre, 2009 “Gum”
Exhibition, 2008 “Drawn by Hairs”
Main Street Rag, 2008 “Celia’s Heaven” (novel excerpt)
Obliquity, 2006 “Ghost Rocks” (novel excerpt Stealing Time)
Poetry Publications
Clover: A Literary Rag, 2013 “Can You See Her Fly” & “I Don’t Remember”
Clover: A Literary Rag, 2012 “Abandonment Revisited, Rising Water
Labryinth, 2012 “When You Are Ready”
Strands, Anchor Art Space, 2012 “Green on Green”
Spirit One, 2011 “Circumference”
Bat Shat, 2011 “Frozen Pipes,” “I Don't Remember”
Floating Bridge Review, 2009 “Lost Brain, Please Call”
Poetry South, 2009 “Drifting Off”
Labyrinth, 2009 “Caution Says”
Exhibition, 2007 “Die Cut”
Poets on the Lake, 2007 “The Art of Foretelling”
Earth’s Daughters #68, 2006 “Tidal Generations”
Her Mark Datebook, 2005 & 2006 “Home at Sea,” “Dust Prophecies”
Spillway Review, 2004 “Dream”
Wicked Alice, 2004 “Carrying On”
Treewalk Anthology, 2004 “Winter Guard”
Poets Against the War, 2004 “Nerve Root”
Poesy Magazine, 2004 “Winter Guard”
BIAC Poetry Corners, 2004, 2006 “Summer With You”
Spindrift, 2004, 2003 “Grandma’s Garden & Alice’s Mirror”
Poetry Awards
Portia Steele Memorial Award for Excellence in Poetry “Escape Artist”
Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest Walk Award Winner 2007 & 2018 “Dreaming Beneath a Big Sky”
Editorial Experience
Poetry Walk: The First Five Years, Sue C. Boynton Contest, Editor and Designer, 2010
Crab Creek Review, June 2009 to present, Fiction Editor.
Becoming, What Makes a Women, April 2012, Assistant Poetry Editor
Memoir and Novel, Freelance Editing
Professional Memberships
Whatcom Writers and Publishers, Bellingham, WA
Whatcom Poetry Series, Bellingham, WA, Board Member, Whatcom County
Old Fairhaven Association, Bellingham, WA
Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA
Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA
References
Cami Ostman, The Narrative Project
Brenda Miller, Professor of English, Western Washington University, Brenda.Miller@wwu.edu, 360-738-7230
Sue Erickson, Artist & Poet, 360-733-0693
Classes:
Shadow Box Class, Private, Bellingham, WA
Classes:
Shadow Box Class, Private, Bellingham, WA
Amulet Class, Private,
Mixed Media, Bellingham, WA
Collage Class, Private,
Bellingham, WA
Artist Way, Private, Kingston, WA
Writing Coach, Bellingham, WA
Painting Instructor, Private, Kingston, WA
Painting Instructor, Private, Kingston, WA
Illustration Instructor, N.W. College of Art, Poulsbo, WA, 1991-92
Additional Work Experience
Novelist & Memoirist, Bellingham & Kingston, WA 1999-2008.
Author of Whispering, Idaho, Stealing Time, and Celia’s Heaven
Visual Artist, Bellingham, WA, 1985-Current
Visual Artist, Bellingham, WA, 1985-Current
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