Debbie Amirault Camelin
Kanata,Ottawa,Canada

Debbie Amirault Camelin lives in Ottawa, Ontario. She is 8th generation Acadian with roots in Nova Scotia. Debbie is a certified Veriditas labyrinth facilitator and poet. She facilitates poetry writing workshops. Her poems are described as transporting readers through time and space on a journey both emotional and geographical. Her work has appeared in the following publications: Across the Long Bridge, An Anthology of Award Winning Poetry from the Margaret Reid and Tom Howard Poetry Contests 2006; The River 2006: Anthology of the Natchez Poetry Contest; Sailing in the Mist of Time: Award Winning Poems from the Margaret Reid Prize for Traditional Verse and the Tom Howard Poetry Contests 2007; Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize Anthology 2010. Of particular interest, in 2006, her poem Intimidation was 1st place in the Tom Howard poetry contest. In 2012, her poem The Forest’s End was one of six runners up in the Robert Frost Foundation poetry contest. And in 2014, her poem A Night in Zimbabwe was 2nd place in the Canadian Authors’ Association—Niagara Branch poetry contest.