Pearl
- Publisher
- Frontenac House Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2006
- Category
- Canadian, Women Authors, LGBT
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897181034
- Publish Date
- Apr 2006
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Pearl is a poetic exploration of the life of the legendary Pearl Miller, early Calgary’s most famous, and successful madam. Cullen fuses traditional lyric lines and experimental uses of form and language to fabricate a biography of Calgary’s mythical brothel keeper.
About the author
Nancy Jo Cullen’s poetry and fiction have appeared in The Puritan, Grain, filling Station, Plenitude, Prairie Fire, Arc, This Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, Room, Journey Prize and Best Canadian Fiction 2012. Nancy is the 2010 recipient for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ+ Emerging Writers. She’s published three collections of poetry with Frontenac House and a collection of short stories, Canary, with Biblioasis. Her first novel, The Western Alienation Merit Badge, was shortlisted for the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
Awards
- Winner, Alberta Book Awards Trade Fiction Book Award
- Short-listed, The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize