Phoebe NilsenPhoebe Nilsen (née Watson) is an Egyptian Canadian immigrant who is married to a Norwegian and has lived in Norway since 1984. Her family moved from Egypt to Canada the summer she turned fifteen. The move from a traditional and very conservative Egypian environment to the unaccustomed freedom of the West and a world of flirting and dating, had a marked impact on her life. The conflicts and difficulties encountered in learning to relate to this new world, particularly in the realm of male-female interaction, became the driving force behind many of her poems. Phoebe completed her MA in English at Andrews University, Michigan, in 1970. Subsequently, she taught high school and college in many places, including Iowa, Washington, Michigan, Canada, Norway, and very briefly in China. She spent the last twenty-one years of her career teaching ESL methodology and English literature to Norwegian teacher trainees and holding numerous in-service courses for Norwegian English teachers. When she retired in 2012, she was associate professor at Nord-Trøndelag University College (now Nord-University). Read More Read Less