Susan Holbrook

Susan Holbrook is a Canadian poet,[1] whose collection Throaty Wipes was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.[2]

Her debut poetry collection, misled, was published in 1999 while she was a graduate student at the University of Calgary.[3] It was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award[4] and the Alberta Writers Guild's Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry.[5] She then began teaching literature and creative writing at the University of Windsor,[6] and followed up with Good Egg Bad Seed in 2004 and Joy Is So Exhausting in 2009. The latter collection was a shortlisted Trillium Award finalist in 2010.[7]

She has also published the poetry textbook How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (2015), and wrote the play Why Do I Feel Guilty in the Changeroom at Britannia Pool? (2002).[8]