Vivian Hansen

Vivian Hansen
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Vivian Hansen has had poetry and nonfiction published in several Canadian journals. Her chapbook publications include: “Never Call It Bird: the Melodies of AIDS” and “Angel Alley: Jack the Ripper’s Victims.” Her book Leylines of My Flesh chronicles the poetics of Danish immigration to Western Canada. She won the first annual Legacy Magazine’s poetry contest in 2007, and was shortlisted that year for the Writer’s Guild of Alberta’s Jon Whyte Essay Prize. She has just completed a long poem manuscript entitled “A Bitter Mood of Clouds” about Arne Petersen, recipient of sex reassignment surgery in post war Denmark.