Natalie Meisner

Education: BA (Dalhousie); MA (British Columbia); PhD (Calgary)

Office: EA3122
Phone: 403.440.5925
E-mail: nmeisner@mtroyal.ca

Natalie Meisner’s interests include theatre, performance, Canadian literature, theories of comedy and laughter, and the history and construction of gender and sexuality. Meisner is also an award-winning playwright and poet and literary editor. Professionally produced nationwide, her plays have won the Canadian National Playwriting Award and a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award. She has edited both PRISM International and Dandelion magazines. Publications include Growing Up Salty & Other Plays, as well as selections in several anthologies, such as The Yale Journal of Criticism, Lady Driven: More Writing By the Seven Sisters, Love Poems for the Media Age, and Coming of Age In Canada. Her poems have been featured in Grain magazine, The Nashwak Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Antigonish Review, CV2, and Room of One’s Own.