Cathy Stonehouse

Cathy Stonehouse is a British-born poet and writer who has lived in Canada since 1988.

Stonehouse grew up in Holmes Chapel, a village in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England. In 1988, having obtained a BA in English from Wadham College, Oxford, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to study creative writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she has lived ever since.

Her first volume of poetry, The Words I Know, was published by the now-defunct Press Gang Publishers in 1994.

She edited Event magazine from 2001 to 2004. Since 2006 she has taught Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University.

In 2008 she co-edited, with Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam, a creative non-fiction anthology entitled Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood.

In May 2011 she published a volume of short fiction, Something About the Animal.

Her second volume of poetry, Grace Shiver, is due for publication in January 2012.

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