Nancy Bauer

Nancy Bauer, née Nancy Luke is a Canadian writer and editor who writes about craftspeople, visual artists, and writers for various maritime magazines. Born north of Boston, Massachusetts, Bauer received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1956. She moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1965. From 1967 until 1983, Bauer was the publisher of 25 New Brunswick Chapbooks. She founded the Maritime Writers Workshop, and has served as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the Cape Cod Writers Conference, East Word One, and Bemidji State University. She was married to Bill Bauer, writer and retired professor, until his death in 2010. She now is writing articles in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.