Wanda Waterman was born in the USA and raised in rural Nova Scotia, where
music and poetry occupied most of her childhood; she sang and played guitar and
banjo in a couple of jazz bands and folk groups in addition to being a flautist in a
small church ensemble.
After moving to Montreal, Wanda met Gilbert and Chantal and Robert (STREAM)
Impressed with Gilbert's musical prowess and Chantal's creativity with lyrics, and Robert they
quickly forged an ongoing collaboration, Wanda using her experience as a
poet, musician, and singer to create songs with them. Wanda is also a freelance
music journalist whose first book has just been published.working as a music journalist, interviewing hundreds of musicians and composers, writing other people’s blogs, writing songs, captioning films, and posing as a bohemian writer. She’s done spoken word performances at Sister Fairs in Nova Scotia and at 100,000 Poets for Change and Nuit Blanche in Montreal. Her poetry’s been published in Canada in Descant, Skylight, Pottersfield Portfolio, and Our Times, and in the U.S. in Shaman’s Drum and Tigertail. Her articles have appeared in Coastal Life, This Magazine, Our Times, and The New Internationalist. Her book, Dervish at the Crossroads: A Soundquest Through the First Two Decades of the New Millennium, will be released by Guernica Editions in the fall of 2020. She’s lived in Maine, California, Vermont, Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, and Tunisia, and now makes her home in Montreal.