Charmaine Cadeau is a

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writer, who won the

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for Poetry in 2015 for her collection ''Placeholder''."ReLit Award winners announced"
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'', January 27, 2015. Originally from

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, Cadeau was educated at the

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and the

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."The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Charmaine Cadeau"
''Open Book Ontario'', May 13, 2013. She is currently an associate professor of English literature at

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Works

*''What You Used to Wear'' (2004) *''Placeholder'' (2013) *"Skytale" (2018)

References

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