Arleen Paré is a Victoria poet and novelist, whose books include Paper Trail, Leaving Now, Lake of Two Mountains and He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car. Her fifth, a poetry collection titled The Girls with Stone Faces, will be released by Brick Books in the Fall, 2017. Leaving Now was listed as one of the annual All Lit Up Top Ten Books. Paré has been nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and has won the Victoria Butler Book Prize, the CBC Bookie Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
