Vera Constantineau is an award winning, internationally published, writer of poetry and short fiction. As well, she wrote humour columns for several community newspapers in Northern Ontario (1994-2007). She earned, way back, a Creative Writing Certificate from Loyalist College in Belleville and is a firm believer in lifelong learning—don’t stop until you drop. In 2020 Vera was named the sixth poet laureate of Greater Sudbury. As the ‘Covid Laureate’ she led several zoom workshops and created the PL Podcast, featuring interviews with both local and international writers during a two-year term. Her focus in the past few years has been on Japanese forms of poetry. She feels every writer should up their writing game by absorbing knowledge, both new and known from instructors in all genres. In addition to being a member and past president of the Sudbury Writers’ Guild, Vera is a member of The Writers Union of Canada, Haiku Canada, The Haiku Society of America and NOWW Thunder Bay. In 2023 her memoir in haibun, Enlightened by Defilement, was published by Latitude 46 Publishers. Her previous books include Daisy Chained, a collection of short fiction, three lines at a time, a chapbook of haiku and senryu, and currently she is promoting her new chapbook, Laugh Lines and Other Wrinkles.
