[Click] photo by Helen Baker

Winona Baker has written five books: Not So Scarlet A Woman and Clouds Empty Themselves were recommended for adult literacy courses by ABPBC in 88 & 89; Moss-Hung Trees received a Romanian award; Beyond The Lighthouse was one of ten NA poetry books Michael Budeja chose for his annual "Read & Recommended" column in Writers' Digest (94), Even a Stone Breathes was among the ten poetry books listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Books of Year 2000 supplement on Canadian literature. She has won humorous, free verse, and sonnet contests, is in over 70 hc/pb anthologies, and has been translated into 6 languages. "walking" was 1 of 24 short-listed finalists in the World Haiku Contest 2002.