Sue Wheeler

Sue Wheeler was born in Texas in 1942. In 1964 she received a B.A. from Rice University in Houston. In 1972 she immigrated to Canada and has lived since on a seaside farm on Lasqueti Island, British Columbia.

Awards
Malahat Long Poem Competition.
Kalamalka New Writers' Competition, 1995.
The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, short list 1995.
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award, short list 1995.
The Fiddlehead Anniversary Contest, second prize, 1995.
Federation of B.C. Writers 10th anniversary contest, second place, 1996.
ARC Poem of the Year Contest, second place, 1996.
Pat Lowther Memorial Award shortlist, 2001
Dorothy Livesay Award (B.C. Book Prize in Poetry) shortlist, 2001

Selected Publications
Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry. (Kalamalka Press, 1995), ISBN 0-9693482-4-X.
Islands (chapbook). (Reference West, 1996).
slow-moving target (Brick Books, 2000), ISBN 1-894078-08-X

Selected Anthologies
Vintage 92. (Sono Nis Press, 1993).
Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of 93. (Windhorse Review, 1993).
Vintage 95. (Quarry Press/The League of Canadian Poets, 1996).
riprap (Banff Centre Press, 1999) ISBN 0-920159-65-6

Books in Print
Wheeler, Sue
Islands. Reference West, 1996. ISBN: 1-895362-94-6.
Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry. Kalamalka Press, 1995. $12.95 ISBN 0-9693482-4-X.

Sue Wheeler, Lasqueti Island BC V0R 2J0
swheeler@island.net