Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave has published 25 books: she is a poet, novelist, children's writer, essayist, columnist and frequent guest on the C.B.C. She has been described as everything from a stand up comedian to an eco-feminist. She lives on Vancouver
Island and on the Queen Charlottes/Haida Gwaii. Susan has been nominated, and has received awards, in six different categories of writing: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, children's writing and for her work as an editor. She wrote the lyrics to a song, “Missing,” dedicated to sixty-two of the missing women on Vancouver's downtown eastside, which has recently been released on a CD. Proceeds from sales go to Haven Society, who provide a transition house for women and children who have suffered abuse, as well as a Victim Services/Women's Assault Programme on Vancouver Island. Her most recent novel is Cargo of Orchids, her latest poetry collection is What the Small Day Cannot Hold: Collected Poems 1970-1985 (Beach Holme). You're in Canada Now...A Memoir of Sorts was published in the fall of 2005.