Arleen Paré

Arleen Lyda Paré (born 1946)^[1] is a Canadian writer. She has published three collections of poetry and two novels to date.

Originally from Montreal, Quebec,^[2] Paré was educated in social work and adult education, and worked in social services in Vancouver, British Columbia for much of her professional career.^[3] She later left her social services job to study creative writing at the University of Victoria.^[4]

Her first book, Paper Trail, was published in 2007. A blend of poetry and prose about a businesswoman finding herself stifled by the weight of corporate bureaucracy,^[3] the book was a shortlisted nominee for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008,^[5] and won that year's City of Victoria Butler Book Award.^[6] She followed up with the novel Leaving Now in 2012.^[7]

Her 2014 poetry collection Lake of Two Mountains won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.^[8]

A lesbian,^[9] she once served on the board of Plenitude magazine.

• Paper Trail (2007, ISBN 978-1897126134)
• Leaving Now (2012, ISBN 978-1894759748)
• Lake of Two Mountains (2014, ISBN 978-1926829876)
• He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car (2015, ISBN 978-1927575925)
• The Girls with Stone Faces (2017, ISBN 978-1771314640)
• Earle Street (2020, ISBN 978-1772012507)
• First (2021, ISBN 978-1771315425)
• Time Out of Time (2022, ISBN 978-1773860794)

• Official website