Author's website: www.susanmccaslin.ca
If you are interested in having this writer visit your classroom, please contact The Federation of BC Writers at 604-683-2057 or email bcwriters@shaw.ca
| Susan McCaslin, Ph.D. is a poet, educator, scholar, workshop facilitator, and author of fourteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Lifting the Stone (Seraphim Editions, 2007). She has edited two anthologies of poetry (Poetry and Spiritual Practice and A Matter of Spirit) and is on the editorial board of Event: the Douglas College Review. Susan lives in Fort Langley, British Columbia. After twenty-three years as a professor of English and Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, Susan is now a full-time writer, giving poetry workshops, talks, and readings. She has a new volume of poetry called Demeter Goes Skydiving forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press in the spring of 2011. Recent Publications Volumes of Poetry A Plot of Light. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Press, 2004. Lifting the Stone. Seraphim Editions, Oct. 2007. Persephone Tours the Underground. Ed. David Zieroth. North Vancouver, BC: Alfred Gustave Press, 2009. (limited edition chapbook) Poems in Anthologies Ascent Aspirations Magazine: Anthology Five (Poetry Issue). "Pluto Forwards His Case," and "Kore Tours the Underground."Ed. David Foster. Nanoose, Bay, BC. 2008. 74-75. Crossing Lines: Poets who Came to Canada in the Vietnam Era. Ed. Allan Briesmaster and Steven Micahel Berzensky. Toronto: Seraphim Editions, 2008, 149-152. Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry. "Demeter Ascends Mount Norman On Pender Island, British Columbia." Ed. Mona Fertig and Harold Rhenisch, eds. Salt Spring Island, BC: Mother Tongue Press, 2008. Poems Published in Literary Journals "Hope, That Feathered Thing," in In Retro Magazine. Literary Editor Eva Tihanyi. Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2009), 56-57. "Underground Olympics," in Canadian Literature. No. 202, Sport and the Athletic Body (Autumn 2009), 11. |