Lorna Crozier Author of Small Beneath the Sky Lorna Crozier, poet and essayist, is a Distinguished Professor and the Chair of the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Her books have received several national awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Inventing the Hawk in 1992. In 2004 she received an Honourary Doctorate from the University of Regina and in 2007, one from the University of Saskatchewan. In 2009 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. The Blue Hour of the Day, Selected Poems came out in 2007, and her memoir, Small Beneath the Sky in 2009. Her poems have been translated into several languages, and she has read her work across Canada and in such countries as South Africa, Scotland, Australia, Malaysia, France, Italy, England and Chile. Margaret Laurence called her “a poet to be grateful for.” Books in Canada claimed “she is one of the most original poets writing in English today.” The Ottawa Citizen described her as “One of Canada’s most read and most honoured poets….[Crozier’s poems] become part of the reader’s permanent memory.” Of her most recent book of poems, Ursula Le Guin wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "What a joy to have a volume of selected poems by this marvellous Canadian poet, storyteller, truth-teller, visionary." Of her memoir, Sharon Butala wrote. “I found it deeply touching.”