Once Houses Could Fly

Rosemary Clewes was born in Toronto and enjoyed several careers, as a script assistant for CBC television, a social worker, then printmaker and now writer/poet. Clewes has travelled many times to the Arctic by kayak, raft and icebreaker.

Her first book of prose and poetry, Thule Explorer: Kayaking North of 77 Degrees, (Hidden Brook Press) was published in 2008 and remains a fine primer for Arctic adventurers.Over the last decade, her poems have been published in many literary journals. She was nominated by The Malahat Review for the National Magazine Awards in 2005, and a year later was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards.