Jeanette Lynes

Jeanette Lynes is a novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer. She is the author of four novels, seven books of poetry, and the editor of several books. Jeanette’s most recent novel, The Apothecary’s Garden (HarperCollins Canada) was on the Toronto Star’s Best-selling Fiction List for seven weeks, was a finalist for a High Plains Book Award, and two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her first novel, The Factory Voice, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a ReLit Award. Her second novel, The Small Things that End the World won the 2019 Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Prize at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Jeanette’s non-fiction manuscript, Apron Apocalypse: Lyric Essays won the John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild in 2023. Jeanette grew up in rural southern Ontario’s Saugeen River country, on the traditional territory of the People of the Three Fires: the Ojibway, Odawa and Potawatomi Nations of Anishinabek peoples. Since 2011, she has directed the MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan, on Treaty 6 Territory.