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From 1980 to 2017, Nancy Bauer was a primary chronicler of the arts scene in New Brunswick, Canada.
She began this career when Joe Sherman invited her to contribute articles for ArtsAtlantic magazine. For the next 37 years, her arts journalism appeared in a variety of periodicals. She capped this vocation with "State of the Art," an 11-year, weekly column for the Salon section of the Saint John Telegraph-Journal.
As a creative writer, Nancy Bauer was a participant-observer and an organizer in the arts. She was among the founders of the Maritime Writers' Workshop, the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, ArtsNB, the Gallery Connexion, and the Word Feast Literary Festival in Fredericton. She was the publisher and editor of the New Brunswick Chapbook series.
Editor, Ian LeTourneau, has skillfully brought together a selection of her arts journalism brimming with people, places, and events. A Great Cloud of Witnessing provides a lively trip through almost 4 decades in which the New Brunswick arts scene flourished in a particularly creative way.
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Nancy Bauer is the author of five novels, including Samara the Wholehearted and Wise-Ears, three published by Goose Lane Editions and two by Oberon Press. Her collection of short stories, Hammering at the Door, will be published in 2025 by Chapel Street Editions. She has been an instructor in the English Department at the University of New Brunswick, teaching courses in creative writing, the literature of Atlantic Canada, and English as a second language. She was a writer in residence at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia, and the University of New Brunswick. She has been an instructor at over 30 writers' workshops in the Maritimes.Nancy was an organizer and founding board member of the Maritime Writers' Workshop, the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, and the Word Feast Fredericton Literary Festival. She received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts in 1999, a Canadian Senate Medal in 2017, and Community Impact Award in 2020. She has been an active member of the Wilmot United Church, serving on its communications committee and as chair of the Wilmot Writers' Group.
