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Carolyn Gammon has been widely anthologized across Canada, the United States and Europe, and she is the author of Lesbians Ignited (Gynergy/Ragweed, 1992), Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted: Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007) and The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger (WLU Press, 2014). She was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Her parents, Frances (Firth) Gammon and Donald Gammon co-founded the Fiddlehead magazine at the University of New Brunswick. Carolyn Gammon lives in Berlin, Germany.
"""With her mother’s declining health and rewiring circuitry of memories, Gammon draws us in. Her poignant narrative poems evoke their lives together over the decades in nonlinear fashion accompanied by her mother’s pithy, unpredictable one-liners at the bottom of each page. This is poetic narrative undone, rediscovered, and re-imagined.” −Betsy Warland, author of Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss “Carolyn Gammon’s sensitive poetry tells the story of her mother’s life, with the emphasis on her last years with failing memory. Frances Firth Gammon was a remarkable woman, and the relationship between her and her daughter shows that personality remains when memory fails and deserves to be recognized.”−Eleanor Belyea Wees, ninety-eight years old, long-time friend of Frances Firth Gammon, and co-founder of The Fiddlehead"
