Betsy Struthers

Betsy Struthers (born 1951) is a Canadian poet and novelist

Life
Struthers was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She has lived in Peterborough, Ontario since 1977. She works as a freelance editor of academic non-fiction texts.

She was president of the League of Canadian Poets from 1995 to 1997, and has served as chair of its Education Committee and Feminist Caucus. She was a co-editor (with Sarah Klassen) and contributor to Poets in the Classroom, an anthology of essays about teaching poetry workshops written by members of the League.

Recognition
Struthers has recieved two Canada Council grants for writing, plus several Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve grants. Her book Still won the 2004 Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. She also won the the Silver Medal as runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award in 1994 for Running Out of Time in 1994; and was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award in 1993 for her mystery novel Found: A Body.

Publications

 * Censored Letters (Mosaic Press, 1984), ISBN 0-88962-250-7
 * Saying So out Loud (Mosaic Press, 1988), ISBN 0-88962-398-8
 * Found: A Body (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1992), ISBN 0-88924-237-2
 * Running out of Time (Wolsak and Wynn, 1993), ISBN 0-919897-35-5
 * Grave Deeds (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1994), ISBN 0-88924-257-7
 * Poets in the Classroom (ed.) (Pembroke, 1995), ISBN 1-55138-055-2
 * A Studied Death (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1995), ISBN 0-88924-266-6
 * Virgin Territory (Wolsak & Wynn, 1996), ISBN 0-919897-51-7
 * Driven (Black Moss Press, 2000), ISBN 0-88753-345-0
 * Still (Black Moss Press, 2003), ISBN 0-88753-378-7
 * In Her Fifties (Black Moss Press, 2005), ISBN 0-88753-402-3
 * WHERE THE NIGHT COMES CLOSEST. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2008
 * IN HER FIFTIES. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2005.
 * STILL. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2003 (poetry)
 * DRIVEN. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2000 (poetry)
 * VIRGIN TERRITORY. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1996 (poetry)
 * RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1993 (poetry)
 * SAYING SO OUT LOUD. Oakville: Mosaic Press, l988 (poetry)
 * CENSORED LETTERS. Oakville: Mosaic Press, l984 (poetry)


 * A STUDIED DEATH. Toronto: Simon & Pierre/Dundurn, 1995 (fiction)
 * GRAVE DEEDS. Toronto: Simon & Pierre/Dundurn, 1994 (fiction)
 * FOUND: A BODY. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1992 (fiction)


 * Co-editor (with Sarah Klassen). POETS IN THE CLASSROOM. Toronto: Pembroke Press, 1995