Canadian
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poet. Born in
Calgary
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,
Alberta
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, she was raised in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, and graduated from
Mount Allison University
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Like other liberal arts colleges in North America, Mount Allison does not parti ...
. Her poems and personal essays have been widely printed and anthologized. She lives in
Vancouver
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,
British Columbia
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.
Awards and honours
Her poetry has won several awards including the
Pat Lowther Award
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.Sandy Shreve
* ''A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems'' (Caitlin, 2008)
* ''Turning Left to the Ladies'' (Palimpsest, 2009)
;Poetry Chapbooks
* ''Small Songs'' (Hawthorne Society, 1994)
* ''A Woman's Fingerprint'' (Other Tongue Press, 1997)
;Non-fiction
* ''Red Bait! Struggle of a Mine Mill Local'' with Al King (Kingbird, 1998)
* ''Emily Carr: Rebel Artist'' (2000)
* ''The Fish Come In Dancing: Stories from the West-Coast Fishery'' (Ed., Strawberry Hill, 2002)