Wendy Morton

Works by Wendy Morton:

• What Were Their Dreams? Valleys of Hope and Pain: Canada's History
• Gumshoe
• Private Eye
• Shadowcatcher
• Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Taking poetry public across Canada
• Undercover

From ABC BookWorld and Poets Caravan, she moved to Canada in 1970 and now lives in Sooke. She worked as an insurance investigator for more than twenty years. As the coordinator of the Mocambopo reading series in Victoria, Morton became an influential figure in the landscape of B.C. poetry. As the founder of "Random Acts of Poetry," she has instigated unusual poetry promotion campaigns with Westjet Airlines, Daimler-Chrysler, Prairie Naturals Vitamins, Fairmont Hotels, Fujifil and AbeBooks.

Morton was a host of Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria, a weekly poetry venue now at Russell Books. She believes that poetry is the shortest distance between two hearts. In 2018 she received the Federation of British Columbia Writers' 2018 Honourary Ambassador Award. The FBCW Honourary Ambassador Award, launched in 2015, is given in recognition of a person whose work and achievements in the community bring attention to the value of writers and writing. She has worked on the Elder Project with developing the poetic voices of Indigenous school children, who then interview their Elders and write poetry about from thosde interviews that area made into books.