Biography

A poet from the Bruce Peninsula with a lifelong love of writing and expression.

When Lyn was a toddler, her family moved from Calgary to a property near Wiarton, returning to her mother's roots on the Bruce Peninsula. At school she was involved in many clubs and sports, as well as after-school activities including figure skating and Air Cadets. She was an Ontario Scholar and received her School Letter among other Honours, including for English Studies.

Lyn always found writing poetry an instinctive means to express thoughts and feelings, as well as to pay tribute to special people and occasions. Her first publication, "I had in mind..." (2016) is packed with more than 50 poems while a second volume "I had MORE in mind..." reprises some of the best, while publishing new poems to mark the auspicious year 2020.

One of her earliest poems was written in grade school for a Remembrance Day contest and won provincial and national prizes. With her father being wounded in WWII (England - 11th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, then Europe - 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment), and a grandfather who served in WWI (160th Bruce Battalion) and again in WWII with the Veterans Guard, she keenly feels the importance of Remembrance.

After many years working in the GTA and Niagara Region, Lyn moved back to her home area and has lived in Owen Sound for over 25 years with her husband Robert and their pets. She has had a life-long love of music, collecting and games, particularly trivia and Scrabble.

Selected Publications

• "The Path" - Verse Afire Volume 2. Issue 1
• I had MORE in mind..., 2020
  ISBN 978-0-9950288-1-4 | 77 pages
• I had in mind..., 2016
  ISBN 978-0-9950288-0-7 | 77 pages
• Why Unicorns? - Dialogue Magazine Vol.32 No.1
• Your Way - Dialogue Magazine Vol.33 No.1
• Spectacular - Sydenham Sportsmen Magazine 2001, 2002

Selected Anthologies

• Sowing Seeds of Gold Anthology, The Ontario Poetry Society, 2025, UPCOMING