Name Susan Gillis | Role Poet | |
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Books Boomtime Boca:: Boca Rat, Fort Lauderdale, Remembering Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale in Vintag, Swimming Among the Ruins | ||
Poet susan gillis reads view with teenage girl
Susan Gillis is a Canadian poet.
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She is the author of three collections of poetry: Swimming Among the Ruins, which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award; Volta, which won the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry; and The Rapids, which was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.
Arc Poetry Magazine called Gillis “a formidable poet.”
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Gillis spent several years in Victoria, British Columbia and divides her time between Montreal, Quebec, and the country near Perth, Ontario, where she lives with poet and novellist John Steffler.
Gillis is a member of Yoko’s Dogs, a collaborative Japanese renku poetry collective, with poets Jan Conn, Mary di Michele and Jane Munro, which published Whisk. She also teaches in the Department of English at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.