Their Lives and Times brings together in one place a lively mix of perspectives, including previously published work and new research, literary and scholarly work. It will be equally at home in an academic setting or on the bookshelf of any reader interested in the diversity of women's experiences and the ways in which these experiences have been explored in new research and literature.

Wendy McGrath’s poetry has been published in CV2, Prism international, NeWest Review, Tessera, Room of One’s Own, Orbis, and Grain. Her verse has been broadcast on CBC Radio and her work has appeared in several anthologies. Previously she published Go Van Gogh, a chapbook of her poetry. In 1998 she received the James Patrick Folinsbee Prize from the University of Alberta’s Department of English. She lives in Edmonton, AB. Common Place Ecstasies (Beach Holme, 2000) is her first book of collected poetry.

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Barbara Neis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Memorial Univeristy. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1988. She has researched many aspects of the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries and has begun linking that research with international fisheries-related developments. Her current areas of research include the health impacts of restructuring in the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries (funded by Health Canada and by the National Network on Environments and Women's Health) and local ecological knowledge and science (funded by Eco-Research and SSHRC projects). She recieved Memorial University's President's Award for Outstanding Research in 1998. 

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Marilyn Porter is professor emerita of sociology at Memorial University.

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