Lynn Crosbie was born in Montreal, Canada in 1963. She received a PhD in English literature from the University of Toronto. She is a cultural critic, and the author of four books of poetry: Miss Pamela's Mercy, VillainElle, Pearl and Queen Rat: New and Selected Poems. Pearl was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She is also the author of two novels: Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters and Dorothy L'Amour and collaborated with David Trinidad and Jeffery Conway on Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse, which is based on the film All About Eve. She is the editor of The Girl Wants To: Representations of Sex and the Body and Click. She teaches at the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto.
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