Nina Berkhout

Nina Berkhout was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, where she earned a degree in Classical Studies at the University of Calgary. After completing an MA in Museum Studies at the University of Toronto, Berkhout moved to a remote island in the Bahamas to set up a community museum -- the setting for her first collection of poetry, Letters from Deadman's Cay (NeWest 2003). Berkhout currently lives in Winnipeg, where she works as a historical researcher. She is also a poetry reader for Contemporary Verse (CV2) Magazine.

Berkout’s poetry has been published in Forum, Jones Av, Free Fall, Lichen, Grain, SEEDS, and Prairie Fire. Her poetry was also shortlisted in THIS Magazine’s 2001 Great Canadian Literary Hunt. She also wrote This Way the Road, a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of assembling a blindingly white museum display on the Hindenburg Zepplin, also published by NeWest, in 2005.