Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins was born in 1934 and raised in Iowa. She received a
Ph.D in English in 1969 from the University of Iowa. Her first poems
were published in 1979, and over the next twenty years, she wrote and
published sporadically, as well as teaching part-time in Humanities and
Creative writing at York University. In 2003 her first book of poems
was published. She draws and paints watercolours and has exhibited at
two galleries in Toronto. She is a member of the Phoebe-Walmer Writing
Collective.
Awards
York University CYSF and Canadian Woman Studies Literary
Contest, shared 2nd prize, 1983.
Eden Mills Literary Festival Contest, Finalist (among top 10), 1991.
Selected
Publications
Wonders at the Corner (The St.
Thomas Poetry Series, 2003) ISBN 0-9685339-8-1.
Books in Print
Collins, Suzanne
Wonders at the Corner, Poetry
(The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2003) ISBN 0-9685339-8-1, $20.00.
Suzanne Collins, 26 Belvedere Blvd., Etocoke, ON M8X 1K1.
collins@pathcom.com