Donna LangevinPoet/playwright Donna Langevin is a retired ESL teacher and the mother of three sons. The latest of her five poetry collections include Timed Radiance, Aeolus House 2022 and Brimming, Piquant Press 2019. Appearing in journals in Canada, Israel, Austrlia, India and the USA, she won second prize in the 2014 GritLIT contest, first prize in the Banister Anthology Competition 2019, and first place in the Ontario Poetry Society Pandemic Poem contest, 2020. Her plays The Dinner and Bargains in the New World won first prizes for script at the Eden Mills Festival in 2014 and 2015. If Socrates Were in My Shoes was produced at the Toronto Alumnae Theatre NIF Festival in 2018 and Remember Him Chasing Squirrels was performed there in 2020. Winner of a second place Stella Award from Act II Studio, Donna's play Summer of Saints (about the 1847 typhus epidemic) was produced at the Fresh Picks: Sandra Kerr New Plays Festival in 2022. A memoir/fictoire, A Story for Sadie was published by Piquant Press in 2023. Homeless City, a chapbook co-authored with Kate Rogers, was launched in January 2024 by Aeolus House Press. Read More Read Less