Simone Poirier-Bures

Biography

Simone Poirier-Bures is the author of three books: Candyman, a novel set in her native Nova Scotia; That Shining Place, an award-winning memoir of Crete; and Nicole, short stories and memoir about growing up female and Acadian. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including We Write For Our Own Time: Selected Essays From 75 Years of the Virginia Quarterly Review. She teaches writing at Virginia Tech and is currently working on a travel memoir about Kyrgyzstan.

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MEMOIR / Summer 2002

My Mother and I Hear Her Death Approaching

By Simone Poirier-Bures

“I won a ticket for a dream house,” my mother tells me on the phone. “It cost a hundred dollars to buy. It’s a gorgeous house. Brand new and big big. If I win, I’ll give it to you. Then you and Allen can move here and live in it.”

 

Spring 1994

Return

By Simone Poirier-Bures
REPORTING / Winter 2004

Democracy

By Simone Poirier-Bures