Biographical notes
Maggie Helwig has published six books of poetry, two books of essays, a collection of short stories and three novels, Where She Was Standing (2001), Between Mountains (2004), and Girls Fall Down (2008). A human rights activist as well as a writer, she has worked for the East Timor Alert Network in Toronto, the Women in Black network, and War Resisters' International. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
Books Published
- Girls Fall Down, Coach House Books, April 2008: novel
- Between Mountains, Knopf Canada (Canada), Chatto and Windus (UK), 2004: novel
- One Building In the Earth: New and Selected Poems, ECW Press, 2002: poetry
- Real Bodies, Oberon Press, 2002: essays
- Where She Was Standing, ECW Press, 2001: novel
- Gravity Lets You Down, Oberon Press, 1997: short fiction
- The City on Wednesday, Lowlife Publishing, 1996: poetry chapbook
- Eating Glass, Quarry Press, 1994: poetry
- Apocalypse Jazz, Oberon Press, 1993: essays
- Graffiti for J.J. Harper, Lowlife Publishing, 1992: poetry chapbook
- Talking Prophet Blues, Quarry Press, 1991: poetry
- Because the Gunman, Lowlife Publishing, 1990: poetry chapbook
- Eden, Oberon Press, 1989: poetry
- Tongues of Men and Angels, Oberon Press, 1987: poetry
- Walking Through Fire, Turnstone Press, 1983: poetry
