Margaret Avison was born in Galt,
Ontario. She attended public
          school in western Canada, high school
          and university in Toronto. Her first
          book, Winter Sun, won the Governor
          General’s Award for Poetry, as did No
          Time (1989). She holds three honorary
          doctorates and is an officer of the Order
          of Canada. A Kind of Perseverance (her
          1993 Pascal Lectures at the University
          of Waterloo) was published in 1994.