Maureen Hull, Pictou Island

2001

Maureen Hull was born and raised on Cape Breton Island. She studied at SCAD, Dalhousie University and the Pictou Fisheries School. Before and during her formal education she worked in the costume department of Neptune Theatre. Since 1976 she has lived on Pictou Island in the Northumberland Strait. Between 1976 and 1998 she worked as a lobster fisher; for seven of those years she home-schooled her two daughters. She began writing for publication in 1992.

Her fiction and poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently Atlantica, Goose Lane Editions, 2001. Her short story collection, Righteous Living, Turnstone Press, 1999, was short-listed for the Danuta Gleed Award. Her children's book, Wild Cameron Women, was published by Stoddard in 2000. Her fiction has been read on CBC radio.

Maureen has received creative writing grants from the Canada Council and the Nova Scotia Arts Council. She is a past winner of the Atlantic Writers' competition and in 2001 was a Berton House writer-in-residence in Dawson City, YK.

At present she is working with her sister, Kate, on an inter-arts project titled When Lives Become Legend which they hope to complete and exhibit by 2004, is a fiction editor for Pottersfield Portfolio, and is working on her second novel.

First book a collection of short stories called Righteous Living was published by Turnstone Press of Winnipeg in 1999. Stoddart Kids published her first children's book, Wild Cameron Women. Poetry and prose appear in a number of anthologies, most recently Maritime Voices, Twentieth Century Stories by Women, Dreamcather Publishing; Word Out There, Women Poets in Atlantic Canada, Roseway Publishing; and Home For Christmas, Goose Lane Editions. Writes fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, children's stories and is a participant in the Nova Scotia Writers in The Schools Program.

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