A tribute to Adele Wiseman, the winner of the Governor General Award for Fiction in 1958, this book documents Wiseman's gift for friendship and her contribution to the literary community during her years as director of the writing programs in Canada.

"We Who Can Fly" lays the foundation for a new assessment of Adele Wiseman's work, through critical essays, interviews, and through Wiseman's writing -- including her brilliant story Goon of the Moon and the Expendable and selections from previously unpublished poems.

Elizabeth Greene's first collection of poems, The Iron Shoes, was published by Hidden Brook in 2007. Her work has appeared in the Queen's Feminist Review, and FreeFall and has been anthologized in Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Viet Nam War Era (2008) and in Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She (2007) as well as in two anthologies she has edited: Kingston Poets' Gallery (2006) and Common Magic: The Book of the New (edited with Danielle Gugler) (2008). She edited (and contributed to) We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman (1997) which won the Betty and Morris Aaron Jewish Book Award Prize for Best Scholarship on a Canadian Subject (1998). Her fiction has appeared in Descant, Room of One's Own and Quarry, as well as in the anthologies Vital Signs and Written in Stone. She taught English and creative writing courses at Queen's University for many years. She is currently working on a memoir. A piece drawing on this material was published in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood on the Dropped Threads 3 website. She lives in Kingston with her son Alan and three cats. She is the Ontario Representative for the League of Canadian Poets.

Elizabeth Greene's profile page