A native of Quebec City, Brenda Fleet currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, where she writes and paints. She holds two degrees in English Literature, one from Bishop´´s University, Quebec, the second from Carleton University, Ottawa. Her early poems were published in the poetry books and anthologies listed below. After some fifteen years working as a bilingual editor, raising her children, and thereafter exploring art on canvass, she returned to poetry in its "montage" expression, which she feels permits a linguistic use of rhythms of her original language, French, yet within an English vocabulary. The effect is to represent what she hopes is the best of both cultures while bypassing the need for translation. The themes of darkness and shadow, drawing from allegorical poetry, touch directly upon her childhood roots. She is preparing another manuscript entitled, Seasons of the Wolf: A Native, French & English Child in Quebec.

• 1969. Catching the Sun´s Fire. Fiddlehead Poetry Books
• 1972. Bullets and Cathedrals. Fiddlehead Poetry Books
• 1974. Sullen Earth. Fiddlehead Poetry Books
• 1976. Some Wild Gypsy. Borealis Press. Ed. W. Glenn Clever and Frank M. Tierney
• 1978. L´Etoile.. Edited and translated from the French by Brenda Fleet. Fiddlehead Poetry Books
• 1980. Needlepoint. Fiddlehead Poetry Books. Ed. Fred Cogswell. Fredericton