Susan McCaslin is a poet, literary scholar, and English and Creative Writing instructor. Her poems have appeared in literary journals across Canada. After completing her M.A. at Simon Fraser University (1973) and her doctorate at the University of British Columbia (1982), she took up a teaching position at Douglas College in New Westminster. Susan resides with her husband and daughter in Fort Langley, B.C. She is currently editing the papers of a 20th century mystic and pioneer of early Vancouver, Mary Olga Park.
Awards
Cecilia Lamont Poetry Contest, Surrey-White Rock Writer's Group,
prize winner, 1994.
Burnaby Writer's Society Contest, first prize, 1995.
Mother Tongue Chapbook Competition, winner, 1997.
Selected Publications
At the Mercy Seat (Ronsdale
Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55380-003-6.
Common Longing: The Teresa Poems
and
a Canticle for Mary and Martha (Mellen Poetry Press, 2001) ISBN
0-7734-3424-0.
The Altering Eye (Borealis Press, 2000) ISBN 0-88887-232-1
(bound)l ISBN 0-8887-230-5 9 (paper).
Flying Wounded (The University
Press of Florida, 2000) ISBN 0-8130-1796-3 (cloth); ISBN 0-8130-1797-1
(paper).
Into the Open (Golden Eagle Press, 1999) self-published,
ISBN 0-920871-05-4.
Oracular Heart (Hawthorne Society, Reference West, 1999). ISBN
1-894010-36.
Veil/Unveil (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 1997) ISBN 0-9697802-4-9.
Letters to William Blake. (Mother Tongue Press, 1997).
Light Housekeeping. (Ekstasis Editions, 1995) ISBN
1-896860-14-1.
Locutions. (Ekstasis Editions, 1995) ISBN 0-921215-88-6.
Thinking about God. Illustrated children's book. (Twenty-Third
Publications: Mystic Connecticut, 1994). ISBN 0-89622-615-8.
The Visions of the Seven Sleepers
(The Iona Press, 1979), printed on hand-set press, available from the
author.
Kindling (Arion Press, 1979),
self-published, available from author.
Motions of the Hearts
(self-published, 1978), available from the author.
Selected Anthologies
Editor, Poetry and Spiritual Practice
(The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2002) ISBN 0-9685339-7-3.
Editor, A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in
Contemporary
Canadian Poetry. (Ekstasis Editions, 1998) ISBN 1-896860-24-9.
Books in Print
McCaslin, Susan
All books are in print with the exception of Common Longing and Thinking About God.
Susan McCaslin, c/o League of Canadian Poets, 54 Wolseley
St, Toronto, ON M5T 1A5,
Fax: 416-504-0096 Tel: 416-504-1657
www.susanmccaslin.ca