Susan Stenson has been published in many literary magazines including Geist, subTerrain, Fiddlehead, and CV2. She has received numerous awards for her work including The ARC Poem of the Year Contest, subTerrain's Lush Triumphant contest, The Rona Murray Prize for Literature, the Great Canadian Literary Hunt, This Magazine's poetry contest, the League of Canadian Poets National Contest, the Best Book of Poetry (people's choice prize, Monday Magazine), and the Hawthorne Poetry Chapbook Award.

Susan's poetry has been featured on the sides of buses in British Columbia (as part of the Poetry in Transit program) and in various Victoria locations during Random Acts of Poetry Week. Susan calls Victoria home and, when she isn't writing poetry, she teaches English and creative writing in the Saanich School District and co-publishes The Claremont Review (selected as Magazine of the Year by Write Magazine).

Threshold
An Anthology of Six New Female Poets
edited by Rona Murray
with Barbara Colebrook Peace, Dorothy Field, Alisa Gordaneer, Kelly Parsons, and Suzanne Steele

Could Love a Man

In this first collection of poetry, Susan Stenson appears before the reader as a fully realized talent, as someone who has been writing for decades instead of only a few years. Hers is a landscape that runs from the heat of Mazatlán to the damp streets of Dublin. Along the way, she pulls us into gardens where infidelity grows wild, into hotel rooms and private schools, up the mountain slopes of Machu Picchu. We meet lucky drunks and dying men, pregnant women who drive taxis. We sit in bars alongside “winter’s low paunch of sun,” and we listen, because in this book a powerful voice is speaking. - Terence Young