Kate Braid was born in Calgary, raised in Montreal and went to school in New Brunswick before moving to British Columbia where she has been ever since. She worked for 15 years as a carpenter before turning to full-time writing, research and teaching. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from University of British Columbia.
Awards
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, 1992.
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, short list, 1996.
Mother Tongue Chapbook Contest, second prize, 1997.
The Word is Out, first prize, poetry, 1997.
Vancity Book Prize, 1999
Pat Lowther Memorial Award, short listed, 1999
Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Prize, short listed, 1999
Burnaby Writers’ Society Finalist, Millennial Poetry Contest 2000
Saving Wildwood Society, First prize, poetry. 2001
Poems on BC Transit’s “Poetry in Motion”: 1996, 1998, 2005
Selected Publications
Covering Rough Ground. (Polestar, 1991).
Small Songs. (Hawthorn Society, 1994).
To This Cedar Fountain. (Polestar, 1995)
A Woman's Fingerprint. (Mother Tongue Press, 1997).
Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Karr. (Polestar,
1998).
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Raincoast/Polestar 2005)
Co-edited with Sandy Shreve.
A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems (Caitlin, 2008)
Turning Left to the Ladies (Palimpsest, 2009)
Selected Anthologies
If I had a Hammer. (Papier Mache, 1990).
More than Our Jobs. (Pulp Press, 1991).
Poems of Passion, Poems of Love. (The Crossing Press, 1995).
East of Main: An Anthology of Poems from East Vancouver. 1989
Thru the Smoky End Boards: Canadian Poetry About Sports and Games. 1996
A Richer Harvest: The Literature of Work in the Pacific Northwest. 1999
2000% Cracked Wheat, 2000
Larger Than Life, 2002
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 2005
Companions and Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry. 2005
Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry. 2008
Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place. 2008
Books in Print
Kate Braid
A Woman's Fingerprint. Mother Tongue Press, 1997.
Covering Rough Ground. Polestar, 1991.
Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with Emily Karr. Polestar,
1998. $16.95 ISBN 1-896095-40-2. Red Bait.
Struggles of a Mini Mill Local. Non-fiction. Kingbird, 1998. ISBN 0-9683768-0-0.
Small Songs. Hawthorn Society, 1994.
To This Cedar Fountain. Polestar, 1995. ISBN 1-896095-08-9.
Turning Left to the Ladies. Palimpsest. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9784917-0-3
A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poe s. Caitlin. 2008. ISBN 978-1-894759-28-1
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. Raincoast/Polestar. 2005. ISBN1-55192-777-2
Kate Braid
Email: braidk@telus.net