Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction

Janice Kulyk Keefer was born in Toronto, Canada on June 2, 1952. She was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Sussex, England where she received her doctorate in English literature. She is a novelist and poet. Her works include White of the Lesser Angels, Reading Mavis Gallant, The Green Library, Marrying the Sea, and Thieves. She won the CBC Radio Literary Competition, for fiction, for Mrs. Putnam at the Planetarium and The Wind. She received the National Magazine Award for poetry for Fields and the Malahat Long Poem Prize for Isle of Demons. She is also the winner of the 1999 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry; also in that year, she won the Marian Engel Award, lifetime achievement.