Catherine Graham
WRITER/MENTOR
Catherine Graham’s most recent poetry collection, The Celery Forest (Wolsak and Wynn, Buckrider Books), is a CBC Books Top 10 Canadian Poetry Collection of 2017, appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence In Poetry. Her other collections include: Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects (Wolsak and Wynn, 2013, now in its second printing), Winterkill (Insomniac Press, 2010), The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008), Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Watch (Abbey Press, 1998). Her debut novel Quarry (Two Wolves Press) won an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for fiction and “The Very Best!” Book Awards for Best Fiction. Quarry was also a finalist for the Fred Kerner Book Award, “The Very Best!” Book Awards for First Book and the 2018 Sarton Women’s Book Award for Contemporary Fiction.
