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I am not a Wikipedia editor but I am the subject of this article. It includes factual errors. I've provided the corrections -- and more information -- below.

Jane Munro (born Patricia Jane Southwell, December 3, 1943) is a Canadian poet, essayist and educator. She has published six collections of poetry, including Blue Sonama which won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Munro was born in Chilliwack, B.C. and raised in Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada. She married John Munro in 1964 and moved with him to Bloomington Indiana. There, she completed a Bachelor of Arts, Honors English, 1966 at Indiana University. After returning to Canada and spending a year living in Turkey, Munro completed a Master of Arts, English, 1971 at Simon Fraser University. She wrote a thesis on Canadian poetry (Sandra Djwa, supervisor). At S.F.U. she also studied with poet Robin Blazer.

In 1978, by then the mother of three children, Munro completed a Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, at the University of British Columbia (George McWhirter, supervisor). Her M.F.A.thesis, Daughters won the Macmillan Prize for Poetry and became her first published book (Daughters, Fiddlehead Poetry Books: Fredericton, NB, 1982.) It was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Munro's second collection of poetry, The Trees Just Moved Into A Season Of Other Shapes, was published by Quarry Press in 1986.

In 1991, Munro earned a Doctor of Education, Adult Education, from the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation, Presence at a Distance: The Educator-Learner Relationship in Distance Education and Dropout won the Wedemeyer Award (NUCEA) for best book-length scholarly publication in the field of distance education and independent study, 1992. Her scholarly book, Presence at a Distance: The Educator-Learner Relationship in Distance Learning was published by the Pennsylvania State University, 1998.

Munro's third collection of poetry, Grief Notes & Animal Dreams,was published by Brick Books in 1995.

Munro taught Creative Writing at several universities: University of British Columbia, University of Victoria and at what was then Kwantlen College (now Kwantlen Polytechnic University). While at Kwantlen, Munro developed the first online Creative Writing course and served as Co-ordinator for Online Learning. In 1998, she became associate Dean of Arts & Science at BC's Open University. From there, she was seconded to the Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology where she worked with educators at public post-secondary institutions throughout BC to support the development of innovative and collaborative online learning programs.

Starting in the 1980s, Munro has made seven trips to India, the last four to study yoga. She is a proponent and practitioner of Iyengar yoga.

Munro, with her partner Robert Amussen, lived at Point No Point on Vancouver Island from 1993 to 2012. During that time, her fourth poetry collection, Point No Point, was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2006. Active Pass, her fifth poetry collection was published by Pedlar Press in 2010.

Munro belongs to the poetry collective Yoko's Dogs along with Jan Conn, Mary di Michele and Susan Gillis. Yoko's Dogs has published Whisk (Pedlar Press, 2013) and Rhinoceros (Gaspereau Press, 2016).

In 2012, Munro moved back to Vancouver. Brick Books published Blue Sonoma in 2014. It deals with her partner's dementia and decline. (see the Griffin Poetry Prize citation already in the article -- http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2015-shortlist/jane-munro/).

If you want to include a photograph, there's one that I've used frequently on the Griffin citation page. My own web site is http://janemunro.com/

Brick Books https://www.brickbooks.ca/bookauthors/jane-munro/ includes many links to recent interviews and articles.

Thanks for your help with this. I am hesitant to simply replace the article now up by posting my own copy. That doesn't appear to be the way Wikipedia works. But, I would like to have the corrections made.

Jane Munro (2001:569:79E7:F200:89C2:F375:6B62:C21C (talk) 02:48, 3 September 2017 (UTC))