Name Cathy Stonehouse | Role Poet | |
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Education University of British Columbia Books Grace Shiver, Joining Children on the Sp, Something about the Animal, The Words I Know, Listening to Children on the Sp | ||
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Cathy Stonehouse is a British-born poet and writer who has lived in Canada since 1988.
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Stonehouse grew up in Holmes Chapel, a village in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England. In 1988, having obtained a BA in English from Wadham College, Oxford, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to study creative writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where she has lived ever since.
Her first volume of poetry, The Words I Know, was published by the now-defunct Press Gang Publishers in 1994.
She edited Event magazine from 2001 to 2004. Since 2006 she has taught Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University.
In 2008 she co-edited, with Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam, a creative non-fiction anthology entitled Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood.
In May 2011 she published a volume of short fiction, Something About the Animal.
Her second volume of poetry, Grace Shiver, was published in January 2012.