Sandy Shreve

Sandy Shreve is a Canadian poet living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Shreve has published four poetry collections, most recently Suddenly, So Much. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in her chapbooks, Cedar Cottage Suite and Level Crossing. Her work is widely anthologized and has won or been shortlisted for a variety of awards. She co-edited, with Kate Braid, the anthology In Fine Form – The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Polestar, 2005, now available from Tightrope Books), edited Working For A Living, a collection of poems and stories by women about their work (Room of One’s Own, 1988) and founded BC’s "Poetry in Transit," program, which has been displaying BC poetry in SkyTrain cars and buses across the province since 1996. She was born in Quebec and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick. She now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Author

Level Crossing, (forthcoming, Alfred Gustav Press, Fall 2012)

Cedar Cottage Suite, (Leaf Press, 2010)

Suddenly, So Much, (Exile Editions, 2005)

Belonging (Sono Nis Press, 1997)

Bewildered Rituals (Polestar Book Publishers, 1992)

The Speed of The Wheel Is Up to the Potter (Quarry Press, 1990)

Editor

In Fine Form – The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (with Kate Braid), Polestar Book Publishers, 2005 (now available from Tightrope Books).

Working For a Living, published as a special double issue of Room of One's Own (vol. 12 #s 2 & 3, 1988, 208 pp).