Nellie P. (Kennedy) Strowbridge
was born in Hibbs's Cove, Port de Grave, Newfoundland
and is one of the Province's most beloved and prolific
authors. She is the winner of provincial and national
awards and has been published nationally and
internationally. Her work is capsuled in The National
Archives as Newfoundland’s winner in Canada’s Stamp of
Approval Award for a letter written to Canada 2117.
Strowbridge is the author of Widdershins: Stories of
a Fisherman’s Daughter, poetry collections
Shadows of the Heart and Dancing on Ochre
Sands, the tri-author of an essay and story
collection Doors Held Ajar, featuring three
Newfoundland women. A young adult novel Far from Home
Dr. Grenfell’s Little Orphan, is going into its
second printing. Her latest books are The
Newfoundland Tongue and Catherine Snow
which were published in 2008 and 2009 respectively.
Strowbridge, a
former columnist and editorial writer, is also an
essayist and an award-winning poet. She has been Writer
in the Library, a mentor to young writers, an
adjudicator in the Provincial Arts and Letters Awards,
an assessor on the Newfoundland and Labrador Grants
Committee and a judge on the Newfoundland and Labrador
Alliance Book Awards. She has held school workshops in
Canada and Ireland, and also hosted a Seminar/Gabfest
for International Women’s Day in Cobh, Ireland, where
she was Writer-in-Residence. The Canadian Embassy in
Dublin also sponsored a reading and reception for her.
She was included in No Choice
but to trust, and Sing for the Inner Ear, the
Sandburg-Livesay Award Anthologies of outstanding
populists poets from around the world. Her work is also
in Postcard and Bus Poetry and in Circle of Six:
a collection featuring six Newfoundland poets. Her work
is in the school series Land Sea & Time. Gage
Educational Publishing included "Summer Job" in a
Canadian textbook for Grade 12 entitled Passages 12
and in a CD. A poem "The Fisherman’s Wife"
has been published seven times and was used as part of a
play performed at The Arts and Culture Centre.
Strowbridge is also
is a member of The
Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, The
Writers’ Union of Canada, The League of Canadian Poets
(Newfoundland and Nova Scotia Representative), and Page
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