Susan Musgrave
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Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in Sidney, British Columbia.
Musgrave is married to Stephen Reid, a writer, convicted bank robber and former member of the Stopwatch Gang.
Musgrave defended Al Purdy's collection of poetry Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962–1996 in Canada Reads 2006.
She currently teaches creative writing in the University of British Columbia's Optional Residency Master of Fine Arts Program.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Poetry
- Songs of the Sea-Witch — 1970
- Entrance of the Celebrant — 1972
- Grave-Dirt — 1973
- Gullband Thought Measles was a Happy Ending — 1974
- The Impstone — 1976
- Selected Strawberries and Other Poems — 1977
- Kiskatinaw Songs — 1978
- Becky Swan's Book — 1978
- A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury — 1979 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Tarts and Muggers — 1982
- Cocktails at the Mausoleum — 1985
- The Embalmer's Art — 1991
- Forcing the Narcissus — 1994
- Things That Keep and Do Not Change — 1999
- What the Small Day Cannot Hold — 2000
[edit] Fiction
- The Charcoal Burners — 1980 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- The Dancing Chicken — 1987
- Cargo of Orchids — 2000
[edit] Non-fiction
- Great Musgrave — 1989
- Musgrave Landing — 1994
- You're in Canada Now, Motherfucker: A Memoir of Sorts — 1989
[edit] Children's literature
- Gullband — 1980
- Haghead — 1980
- Kestrel and Leonardo — 1990
- Dreams are More Real than Bathtubs — 1998
