Shari Andrews

1953-

Shari Andrews was born in New Denmark, New Brunswick, in 1953. She eventually settled in New Maryland, south of Fredericton. Andrews began to write poetry full time in 1987 after attending the Maritime Writers’ Workshop at the University of New Brunswick. In 1990, she produced a chapbook of poems entitled Treason. In 1999, she wrote her first full-length poetry collection, The Stone Cloak. Bones About to Bloom was published two years later in 2001, followed by her third collection, Crucible in 2004 and Walking the Sky (2005). Andrews’s work has been featured in numerous publications and journals, including The Fiddlehead, Canadian Literature, and Catholic New Times. Many of her poems have also been featured in anthologies. In addition, Andrews has been an editor for both Pottersfield Portfolio (1991-1992) and The New Brunswick Reader (1996-2000). She has served on the Board of Directors for the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. Since 1994, she has also been a member of the Wolf Tree Writers group, a Fredericton-based writing group for women. Andrews has won several awards, including First Prize for Poetry in a competition sponsored by the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (1996); the Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Bones About to Bloom (1997); and first prize in a short poem competition through Pottersfield Portfolio (1998).

 

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

New Maryland, New Denmark

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