About Susan

Susan Telfer’s is a writer and teacher living on Coast Salish territory in Gibsons, B.C.  Her first book or poetry is House Beneath (Hagios Press, 2009). Her poetry has recently been anthologized in Desperately Seeking Susans and The Planet Earth Poetry Anthology. She appeared at the Festival of Written Arts in 2013 onstage with Susan Musgrave and Lorna Crozier, and she won the 2013 Vancouver Writer’s Festival Poetry Contest. Oolichan Books will publish her next book in 2015. She has an honours degree in English Literature from Queen's University and an Master of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University. She has a weakness for rescue dogs and chocolate chip cookies.