About

Author: Penny-Anne Beaudoin

Penny-Anne Beaudoin

Penny-Anne Beaudoin earned a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry in 1997, and has published articles pertaining to religion and spirituality in several Canadian and American Journals.  She was nominated for the Canadian Church Press Award in 2000.  Her fiction has been published in Lorraine and James, Writers On Line, Quantum Muse, Ascent Aspirations, Flash Me, FreeFall Magazine, The Rose & Thorn, Skive Magazine, The Canadian Writers’ Journal and flashquake.  She was nominated for the Push Cart Prize in 2005.  Her poetry has appeared in The Windsor Review, On Spec Magazine, Room of One’s Own, Les Bonnes Fees, Membra Disjecta, and Doorways Magazine.  Her poem “The Magician’s Assistant” has just been nominated for the Rhysling Award for the year’s best speculative fiction in 2009.  Both her short stories and poems have won or placed in a variety of competitions.  holy cards: dead women talking is her first book publication.  Penny-Anne lives in Amherstburg with her husband Tony, and various figments of her imagination.  She sings, has been known to preach on occasion, and tries not to think about the unfinished novel languishing in her desk drawer.