Jan Conn
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Jan Conn (born 1952) is a Canadian poet who lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and does research on mosquito genetics at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto.
Born in Asbestos, Quebec, Conn received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Toronto. She has lived in Guatemala, Venezuela, Florida, Vermont and Massachusetts, conducting research on insects that transmit pathogens. Before taking up her current work on population genetics of malaria-carrying mosquitoes in South America and Africa, she was a recognized expert on the genetics of Black fly (Simulium) species vectoring river blindness (onchocerciasis) in Central America.
Conn has written five books of poetry, most recently Beauties on Mad River, Véhicule Press, 2000. She has won numerous awards and major travel grants related to poetry. Her book South of the Tudo Bem Cafe, 1990, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.
She is married to evolutionary biologist Carl Schlichting, who is on faculty at the University of Connecticut.
[edit] Bibliography
- Red Shoes in the Rain - 1980
- The Fabulous Disguise of Ourselves - 1986
- South of the Tudo Bem Cafe - 1992
- What Dante Did With Loss - 1996
- Beauties on Mad River - 2000
See also: List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian poets
