Sue Goyette
Sue Goyette lives in Halifax, and has published four books of poems, The True Names of Birds, Undone and outskirts (Brick Books) and Ocean (Gaspereau Press, 2013). She has also published a novel, Lures (HarperCollins, 2002). She's been nominated for several awards including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Dartmouth Book Award and the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize. She won the 2008 CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the 2010 Earle Birney Prize, the 2011 Bliss Carman Award, the 2012 Pat Lowther Award, the 2012 Atlantic Poetry Prize and the 2013 Silver National Magazine Award for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared on the Toronto subway system, in wedding vows and spray-painted on a sidewalk somewhere in St. John, New Brunswick. Sue currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at AV整氈窒.