Biography
Miriam Dworkin Waddington was born to an intensely Yiddishist family in the North End of Winnipeg. Although the move to Ottawa with her family took her away from that milieu, she did encounter the vibrant Yiddish cultural life in Montreal through her acquaintance with Ida Maze. She is widely recognized as a powerful and modernist feminist voice in Canadian poetry. Her poetry and literary criticism were considerably influenced by her Jewish identity and values. Waddington’s work has left an indelible impression on Canadian and Jewish letters in Canada. Her considerable achievement in poetry is apparent in a two-volume critical edition of her poetry, edited by Ruth Panofsky.