Susan Goyette

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Sue Goyette grew up on the South Shore of Montreal and now lives in Halifax, NS. She has taught at the Maritime Writers' Workshop, The Banff Wired Studio, The Blue Heron Workshop and The Sage Hill Writing Experience. She is the author of two books of poetry and two novels and currently teaches Creative Writing at Dalhousie University.

Selected List of Publications

Undone. Brick Books, 2004. ISBN 1-894078-33-0.
Nominated for the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Dartmouth Book Award.

"Goyette combines the seeming ordinariness of our human days with tenderness and artful wisdom."
-Patrick Lane. The Globe & Mail, July 3, 2004

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Lures. HarperCollins, 2002. ISBN 0-00-200506-9.
Nominated for the 2003 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.
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"I read Lures in one tense sitting, unable to wait overnight to learn how the children of this novel endure the heart-rending injustices Sue Goyette builds into the adult world they inhabit. Her writing is that of a seasoned novelist - authentic, edgy, and precise. Her characters are complex, sometimes startling in their originality, and unforgettable."
     - Pearl Luke, award-winning author of Burning Ground

"Lures is a vivid and intimate study of the poignancy of youth and the painful but ever-hopeful ambivalence of familial love."
     - Lynn Coady, author of Play the Monster Blind and Strange Heaven

The True Names of Birds. London, Brick Books, 1998.
Nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Globe & Mail Best Book List, 1999.
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"This is a poet to watch, and one who watches. . . . This is what poets are supposed to do. To see. To see when everybody else is half-blind."
     - "Poets to read and poets to watch." Fraser Sutherland. The Globe & Mail, 31 July 1999.

You can send mail to Susan Goyette
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia