Betsy Struthers (born 1951) is a

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who lives in

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. She was co-editor (with

Sarah Klassen Sarah Klassen (born 1932) is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Klassen's first volume of poetry, ''Journey to Yalta'', was awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klassen is the recipient of Canadian Autho ...

) and contributor to ''Poets in the Classroom'', an anthology of essays about teaching poetry workshops written by members of the

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. She was president of the League from 1995 to 1997 and has served as chair of its Education Committee and Feminist Caucus. She works as a freelance editor of academic non-fiction texts. Her book ''Still'' won the 2004 Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.

Works

*''Censored Letters'' (Mosaic Press, 1984), *''Saying So out Loud'' (Mosaic Press, 1988), *''Found: A Body'' (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1992), *''Running out of Time'' (Wolsak and Wynn, 1993), *''Grave Deeds'' (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1994), *''Poets in the Classroom'' (ed.) (Pembroke, 1995), *''A Studied Death'' (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1995), *''Virgin Territory'' (Wolsak & Wynn, 1996), *''Driven'' (Black Moss Press, 2000), *''Still'' (Black Moss Press, 2003), *''In Her Fifties'' (Black Moss Press, 2005),

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