Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Musgrave is married to Stephen Reid, a writer, convicted bank robber and former member of the infamous band of thieves known as the Stopwatch Gang. Their relationship was chronicled in 1999 in the CBC series Life and Times.

Musgrave defended Al Purdy's collection of poetry Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962–1996 in Canada Reads 2006, a nationally broadcast radio "battle of the books" competition.

She currently teaches creative writing in the University of British Columbia's Optional Residency Master of Fine Arts Program.

Poetry

 * Songs of the Sea-Witch — 1970
 * Entrance of the Celebrant — 1972
 * Grave-Dirt — 1973
 * Gullband Thought Measles was a Happy Ending — 1974
 * The Impstone — 1976
 * Selected Strawberries and Other Poems — 1977
 * Kiskatinaw Songs — 1978
 * Becky Swan's Book — 1978
 * A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury — 1979 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
 * Tarts and Muggers — 1982
 * Cocktails at the Mausoleum — 1985
 * The Embalmer's Art — 1991
 * Forcing the Narcissus — 1994
 * Things That Keep and Do Not Change — 1999
 * What the Small Day Cannot Hold — 2000

Fiction

 * The Charcoal Burners — 1980 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
 * The Dancing Chicken — 1987
 * Cargo of Orchids — 2000

Non-fiction

 * Great Musgrave — 1989
 * Musgrave Landing — 1994
 * You're in Canada Now, Motherfucker: A Memoir of Sorts — 1989

Children's literature

 * Gullband — 1980
 * Haghead — 1980
 * Kestrel and Leonardo — 1990
 * Dreams are More Real than Bathtubs — 1998

Edited by Musgrave

 * Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls - 2001
 * You Be Me: Friendship in the Lives of Teen Girls - 2002
 * The Fed Anthology - 2003
 * Certain Things About My Mother: Daughters Speak - 2003
 * Perfectly Secret: The Hidden Lives of Seven Teen Girls - 2004