Kate Braid



Kathleen (Kate) Braid is a Canadian poet.

Life
Born in Calgary, Alberta, she was raised in Montreal, Quebec. Her poems and personal essays have been widely printed and anthologized.

She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Recognition
Her poetry has won several awards including the Pat Lowther Award (for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman) and the Vancity Book Prize.

Poetry

 * Covering Rough Ground. Vancouver, BC: Polestar, 1991.
 * Concrete's Coming!. Toronto: High Ground Press, 1992.
 * Small Songs: poems (chapbook). Victoria, BC: Published for the Hawthorne Society by Reference West, 1994.
 * To This Cedar Fountain. Vancouver, BC: Polestar Book Publishers, 1995.
 * A Woman's Fingerprint: Georgia O'Keeffe meets Emily Carr (chapbook). Salt Spring Island, BC: [m]Other Tongue, 1997.
 * Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Carr. Victoria, BC and Custer, WA: Polestar, 1998.
 * Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2010.
 * A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems. Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2008.
 * Turning Left to the Ladies. Kingsville, ON: Palimpsest Press, ©2009.

Non-fiction

 * Red Bait! Struggle of a Mine Mill Local (with Al King). Vancouver, BC: Kingbird Publishing, 1998.
 * Emily Carr: Rebel Artist. Montreal, QC: XYZ Pub., 2000; Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2001.

Edited

 * The Fish Come In Dancing: Stories from the West-Coast Fishery. Lantzville, BC : Strawberry Hill, 2002.
 * In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (edited by Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve). Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 2005.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.