Name Sandy Shreve | Role Poet | |
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Education University of New Brunswick Books Bewildered rituals, The speed of the wheel is up to the potter, Belonging | ||
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Sandy Shreve is a Canadian poet, editor and visual artist living on Pender Island, British Columbia. Shreve has written, edited and/or co-edited eight books and two chapbooks. Her latest poetry collection is Waiting for the Albatross. Recent work has appeared in her chapbooks, Cedar Cottage Suite and Level Crossing. Her work is widely anthologized and has won or been shortlisted for several awards, including the Earle Birney Prize (for "Elles", published in Prism Magazine, 2000) and the Milton Acorn Peoples Poetry Award (for Belonging, Sono Nis Press, 1997). She co-edited, with Kate Braid, the anthology In Fine Form – The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005) and In Fine Form, 2nd edition - A Contemporary Look and Canadian Form Poetry(2016); edited Working For A Living, a collection of poems and stories by women about their work (Room of One’s Own, 1988) and founded BC’s "Poetry in Transit" program, which has been displaying BC poetry in SkyTrain cars and buses across the province since 1996.
Shreve moved to Pender Island after spending some 40 years in Vancouver, BC. Since that move she has exhibited her photo art in a variety of exhibits, including shows at Sea Star Vineyards and Pender's. Her work is available at Talisman on Pender Island and Realty's Art Gallery in Sidney, BC.
She was born in Quebec and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick.