Carolyn Zonailo
photograph by Stephen Morrissey
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Zonailo attended Scripps College, in Claremont, California; and the University of Rochester, New York, where she published poems in student literary magazines. In 1977 she founded Caitlin Press, which she ran with Cathy Ford and Ingrid Klassen, and then on her own until the press was sold and relocated to northern British Columbia. Her first full-length book of poems, The Wide Arable Land, was published in 1981. She has written several books of poetry and poetry chapbooks, and a memoir about her childhood and Doukhobor heritage. Poetry books include: Zen Forest (1987); The Taste of Giving: New & Selected Poems (1990); Memory House (1995). Since 1992, Zonailo has lived in Quebec, with Montreal-born poet Stephen Morrissey, whom she married in 1995. In 2000, she and her husband, Stephen Morrissey, founded Coracle Press. Zonailo works as a freelance editor and consultant. She writes and lectures in astrology under the name Carolyn Joyce. She has worked as a time-management/life-planning consultant and taught creative writing.
Books by Carolyn Zonailo
Memory House
Wading the Trout River
Nature's Grace
The Taste of Giving
The Goddess in the Garden
The Holy Hours
Moon With Mars in Her Arms, The