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Revision as of 20:19, 3 August 2015 by P64 (talk | contribs) (→External links: add ISFDB, add {LCAuth} and thus Catalogue; children's science fiction writer)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Beth Goobie (born 1959 in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian poet, and writer.
Life
She graduated from University of Winnipeg, and the Mennonite Brethren Bible College. She worked in Edmonton in the child welfare system.
Her work appeared in Fiddlehead, Malahat Review and Quarry.
She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Awards
- 1994 R. Ross Annett Juvenile Fiction Award for Mission Impossible.
- 1995 Pat Lowther Award
- 2000 Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book Award, for Before Wings
Works
Poetry
- Scars of Light. Edmonton: NeWest Press. 1994. ISBN 0-920897-73-8.
- The girls who dream me: poems. Pedlar Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9681884-6-0.
Short Stories
- Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please?. Edmonton: NeWest Press. 1991. ISBN 0-920897-09-6.
Young Adult fiction
- Group Homes From Outer Space. Don Mills, Ontario: Maxwell Macmillan Canada. 1992. ISBN 0-02-954093-3.
- Mission Impossible. Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press. 1994. ISBN 0-88995-114-4.
- Before Wings. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55143-163-5.
- The Dream Where Losers Go. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55143-455-1.
- The Lottery (Beth Goobie). Victoria, BC.: Orca Book Publishers. 2002. ISBN 978-1-55143-238-0.
- Kicked Out. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2002. ISBN 978-1-55143-244-1.
- Sticks and Stones. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2002. ISBN 978-1-55143-213-7.
- Who Owns Kelly Paddik?. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2003. ISBN 978-1-55143-239-7.
- Flux. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55143-314-1.
- Fixed. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2005. ISBN 978-1-55143-374-5.
- Something Girl. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2005. ISBN 978-1-55143-560-2.
- Hello, Groin. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. 2005. ISBN 978-1-55143-459-9.
- Born Ugly. Red Deer Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-88995-457-1.
References
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External links
- "Beth Goobie's otherworldly views", Quill & Quire, Amy Jo Ehman, May 2004
- Beth Goobie at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Beth Goobie at Library of Congress, with 14 library catalogue records
- Articles with bare URLs for citations from August 2015
- 1960 births
- Canadian children's writers
- Canadian science fiction writers
- Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- People from Guelph
- University of Winnipeg alumni
- Writers from Ontario
- Writers from Saskatoon
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian women short story writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- Living people