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Nancy Canyon

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in Portland, Oregon, The United States

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Fiction, Memoir, Paranormal

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Ann Pancake, Annie Proulx, Ann Pachette

Member Since

November 2008

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Nancy Canyon lives in Bellingham, Washington where she writes and makes art in historic Fairhaven. She divides her days between words and paint, hikes and gardens (when the sun's out), and plays with her two energetic grandsons as much as possible.

Nancy's novel, CELIA'S HEAVEN, was recently awarded The Cynus Award, 1st Place in the Paranormal category by Chanticleer Reviews. http://chantireviews.com/2013/06/08/f... was recently published by Penchant Press in Bellingham, WA.

Nancy holds the MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University and a Fiction Certificate from UW. She teaches writing at Whatcom Community College and coaches for The Narrative Project. ...more

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Nancy Canyon, Writing the Land Poet

As a Writing the Land poet, I adopted Todd Creek, a Whatcom Land Trust parcel, last year, my one year tenure beginning May 2022. The program is through a group called NatureCulture, pairing land trust parcels with poets. I have written many poems about the river, the creek, the floods, the river silt, dead trees, growing trees, and all those rocks you see be

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I am happy with how this book turned out and so far, several people who read it said, "I was so captivated by the story that I read the book in two days." The book is about the adventure my first husband and I had, working as fire lookout attendants ...more
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“I'm a firm believer in down time.”
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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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“I'm a firm believer in down time.”
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