Door: Poems

Margaret Atwood (born in Ottawa, Ontario) is one of Canada's most celebrated writers, internationally recognized for her novels including The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and the MaddAddam trilogy. She is also a significant poet who published her first collection, Double Persephone, in 1961. Her poetry collections include The Circle Game (1966), which won the Governor General's Award, Power Politics (1971), and Morning in the Burned House (1995). She studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and Radcliffe College, Harvard, where she received her MA. She has received the Booker Prize twice, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize, among dozens of other honors.