Marlene Lacey

Born in Saskatchewan, raised in B.C., living in Alberta, Marlene has worked as a technical writer, editor, instructor and multimedia, website, cd/dvd and book designer/publisher.  She began her publishing company, BGP Corp. in 2001 with Michael St. George's Night Spin paperback.  The company creates, designs and publishes inter-media products combining video, audio, imagery and text in innovative ways.

Since the mid-80's, Marlene has been responsible for trying to spice up many boring nonfiction manuals with datum like Chester Field working for the Fur Nature Co. living in Blue Springs, MO.  Marlene began writing poetry in the late 60's.  She uses the form to wrestle and cope with major life changes.  For example, she put a book of  prosetry, Lily Pauline, together shortly after her mother's death.  She is currently working on an electronic illustration of a short story "The Giant Gander", of and by her great grandfather.  The story is part of a series of Houses of Lacey projects within which she is privately publishing her poem, "Sunset of Our Lives" and her father's song, "In Dreams".  Online poems can be found in the photography area of her website; see, for example "Fire Gypsy" accompanied by the "Sun Flow/ire" image, or see/hear her short verse. 

She is a certified public school teacher having graduated from such liberal arts universities as Simon Fraser in B.C. and The University of Lethbridge* in Alberta with a major in mathematics.  Marlene particularly enjoys using her creative art, photography and writing talent to develop curricular modules that encourage students to tap into their creative potential.  The ongoing creative writing project, The Yea Spot, collaborated with award-winning poet/educator, Toronto's John B. Lee, was developed for students in grades nine to twelve creative writing projects. 

Favourite roommates:  Pascal, Plato, Pablo Neruda, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Roy Orbison, James Taylor, Viktor Lowenfeld, Rousseau, Shakespeare, Serge Lang, Freeman Patterson.
Favourite poem:  The Prospice
Favourite quote:  the seeds of thought bear different fruit in different soils and there are some particular soils in which some particular seeds should not be sown.

*Yes, the word, "The", in "The University of Lethbridge" should be capitalized.