The Miriam Mandel Papers

Born in Saskatchewan, Miriam Mandel began her brief but intense writing career in the late 1960s, working mainly in Edmonton, where she lived at the time of her death in 1982. She published three volumes of verse, with the first, Lions at Her Face (1973), winning the Governor General’s Award. In addition to a number of works in progress, a posthumous volume, The Collected Poems of Miriam Mandel, edited by her friend and former colleague, Sheila Watson, appeared in 1984. The Miriam Mandel Papers is the first of the Canadian Archival Series to deal exclusively with the work of a poet.