Cathy Stonehouse (born 1966) is a British-born poet and writer who has lived in Canada since 1988. Stonehouse grew up in

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, a village in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England. In 1988, having obtained a BA in English from

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, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to study creative writing at the

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, 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

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. 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'', was published in January 2012. Stonehouse's debut novel, "The Causes", was published by Pedlar Press in 2019.

Bibliography

* ''The Words I Know'' Press Gang Publishers 1994 * ''Double Lives: Writing And Motherhood'' (Co-Editor) McGill-Queen's University Press 2008 * ''Something About The Animal'' Biblioasis 2011 * ''Grace Shiver'' Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series * "The Causes" Pedlar Press 2019

Anthologies

* Story ''That's My Girl'' in ''Eye Wuz Here: Stories by Women Writers Under 30'' Douglas and McIntyre 1996 * Essay ''Acting Lessons'' in ''You Be Me'' Annick Press 2002 * Essay ''Truth, Dare, Kiss, Command or Promise: Fragments of a Life'' in ''Perfectly Secret'' Annick Press 2004 , reprinted in ''What My Father Gave Me'' Annick Press 2010 * Essay ''In the Presence of Grace'' in ''Beyond the Small Circle: Dropped Threads 3'' Vintage Books 2006 * Poems in ''White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood'' Demeter Press 2008 * Story ''A Little Winter'' in ''Best Canadian Stories 10'' Oberon Press 2011

External links

- Cathy Stonehouse homepage

- Excerpts from ''35: An Autobiography''

- Articles written as guest editor of the

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's ''The Afterword'', 30 May - 3 June 2011

- Audio interview about short fiction and ''Something About The Animal'', UBC feminist radio program ''What Pink Sounds Like'' - 8 June 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stonehouse, Cathy 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets People from Holmes Chapel English emigrants to Canada Living people Canadian women short story writers 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 1966 births