The river winds through Above and Below the Waterline, the first collection of poetry from novelist, Marianne Paul. The author navigates the joy and the grief that is life in the process of being lived, those events and passages that mark the flow of time, the undercurrents of family, the rough waters and calm waters, the challenges and dysfunction - but beneath it all, love. Water speaks volumes, Marianne Paul tells us. The paddler learns to read river in the same way a child learns to read symbols on the page - the contours and patterns that hint of submerged rocks, that forewarn of swifts and rapids, the shallows, the gentleness and respite of flat waters.

A prominent writer of short-form poetry, Marianne Paul has been published in haiku and tanka journals world-wide. Her recent chapbook, Body Weight, is a collection of the poet's haiku and art, published in 2019 by Human/Kind Press. Paul has won numerous awards for her writing, most recently the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition (for art and short poetry combined, mixed media category), the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Festival Haiku Invitational (Canadian Division) and the Shambhala Times Midwinter Haiku contest. Her haiku recently appeared in a chapbook from The League of Canadian Poets, and in the poetry page of The Literary Review of Canada. Her haibun (prose and poetry blend) has been chosen by a selection panel for inclusion in the prestigious Red Moon anthology for writing that was published in 2019. Her novels - Tending Memory, Twice in a Blue Moon and Dead Girl Diaries - are published by BookLand Press, as well as her inaugural book of poetry, Above and Below the Waterline. Marianne lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

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