Author of “They’re Still Women After All: The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood (McClelland & Stewart 1986) among other academic studies, Ruth Roach Pierson published her first book of poems, Where No Window Was, with BuschekBooks of Ottawa in the spring of 2002, a year after retiring from thirty-one years of teaching as historian and feminist scholar first at Memorial University of Newfoundland and later at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.  Her poems have appeared in ARC, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, The Literary Review of Canada, The Malahat Review, MIX Magazine, Pagitica, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prism International, Queen’s Feminist Review, Quills, and Room of One’s Own as well as a number of anthologies.  She won first place in the Third Annual Poetry contest (2002) of Word: Toronto’s Literary Calendar, was a finalist in the poetry category of the 2003 Pagitica Literary Contest, received an honourable mention in Fiddlehead’s 2003/2004 Ralph Gustafson Contest for Best Poem and an honourable mention in CV2’s 2007 Two-Day Poetry Contest. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their two cats, Haiku and Orange Roughy.  Aide-mémoire (also published by BuschekBooks) is her second book of poems.