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Born and raised in Toronto, Betsy Struthers has lived in Peterborough, Ontario, since 1977. As well as several books of poetry, she has published three novels and was co-editor (with Sarah Klassen) and contributor to Poets in the Classroom (Pembroke, 1995), a collection of essays on workshopping poetry written by members of the League of Canadian Poets. She was President of the League from 1995 to 1997. Struthers' poetry has been praised for its narrative clarity, distinctive voice, and erotic play of language; she received the Silver Medal as runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award in 1994 and was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award in 1993. She has receive two Canada Council grants for writing literature as well as several Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve grants. She has read her work from coast to coast in Canada, in Australia, and in North Carolina; her poems and fiction have been published in many anthologies and literary journals; she has taught workshops in both poetry and fiction to students of all ages from kindergarten to adults. Struthers works as an editor for Broadview Press, an academic publisher based in Peterborough.

• Still (Windsor and Toronto: Black Moss Press, 2003)
• Driven (Windsor and Toronto: Black Moss Press, 2000)
• Virgin Territory (Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1996)
• Running Out of Time (Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1993)
• Saying So Out Loud (Mosaic Press, 1988)
• Censored Letters (Mosaic Press, 1984)

• A Studied Death (Toronto: Simon & Pierre/Dundurn, September 1995)
• Grave Deeds (Toronto: Simon & Pierre/Dundurn, 1994)
• Found: A Body (Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1992)

• Poets In the Classroom, Co-editor (with Sarah Klassen) and contributor (Toronto: Pembroke, 1995)

• Poems and prose have appeared in 10 anthologies, the most recent being That Sign of Perfection, an anthology of hockey poems (Black Moss Press, 1995) and Investigating Women: Female Detectives by Canadian Writers (Simon & Pierre, 1995).

• Since 1978, 80 poems published in 40 literary journals in Canada and Australia, including Canadian Literature, Arc, The Canadian Forum, The Malahat Review, Poetry Canada,, Blast, and Australian-Canadian Studies. Most recently, poems have appeared in Grain 27:1 (Summer 1999) and CVII 21:2 (1998) and a feature book review in Arc 41 (Autumn1998). Poems forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, Arc, event, and another feature book review in an upcoming issue of Arc

• Tilden/CBC/Saturday Night Literary Award finalist, 1996
• Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award runner-up, 1994
• Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award finalist, 1993

Betsy Struthers

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