Crystal Hurdle grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, and Victoria, BC, where
she obtained a BA and MA in English, as well as certification for
teaching high school students and for teaching English as a Second
Language. Since 1985, with her husband, she has made her home in
North Vancouver, teaching Creative Writing and English at Capilano
College. She weaves and quilts in her -ha, ha- spare time.
A self-confessed Plath and Hughes addict, she has developed and taught
a poetry course in which their work figures prominently. Her first book
of poetry, After Ted & Sylvia:
Poems, was published by Ronsdale Press in the fall of 2003. As a
featured speaker, Hurdle read several of these poems at the
International Sylvia Plath Symposium at the University of Indiana late
in 2002.
Her poetry has been published widely in Canadian journals, including Canadian Literature, Fireweed, The
Dalhousie Review, and The
Capilano Review, of which she was Fiction editor in the late
eighties. She is currently working on poetry loosely inspired by
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.
(Author photo by Timothy Acton).
Selected Publications
After Ted & Sylvia:
Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2003)
Books in Print
Hurdle, Crystal
After Ted & Sylvia: Poems (Ronsdale
Press, 2003)