Jane Munro was born and grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and has also lived in Ottawa, the U.S., and Turkey. She earned a BA from Indiana University, an MA from Simon Fraser University, and an MFA and Doctorate of Adult Education from the University of British Columbia, where she has also taught. Munro is the author of Daughters (1982), The Trees Just Moved Into A Season Of Other Shapes (1986), Grief Notes & Animal Dreams (1995), Point No Point (2006), Active Pass (2010), and Blue Sonoma (2014), winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Blue Sonoma explores spirituality and her late husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease. In an interview, she says, “While I was writing Blue Sonoma, I was recording dreams. This kept me in a conversation with images from the less-conscious recesses of my mind. If I’m right that we share some of this material, then dream imagery may also connect with deeper layers of the reader’s consciousness.”
 
Munro is the winner of the 2007 Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award and the 1978 Macmillan Prize for Poetry. Her writing has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2013 and has appeared in Poetry Canada Review, Event, The Fiddlehead, Prism International, and elsewhere. Munro lives in Vancouver, where she is a member of the poetry writing collective Yoko’s Dogs.