Carolyn Marie Souaid is an editor, teacher, book reviewer, and the author
of several collections of poetry.
Her work, published nationally and internationally, has been produced for
CBC-Radio. Carolyn has appeared at many literary festivals across the
country, and went to Paris in 2005 with a Canadian delegation of authors
invited to participate in an international forum on the inhumane treatment
of prisoners of conscience in Turkey and elsewhere. In response to this
event and as an act of solidarity, she co-edited "Freedom: An Anthology of
Canadian Poets for Turkish Resistance", featuring works by nine prominent
Canadian poets uniting in defense of activists serving jail time for the
translation and dissemination of information about abuses in Turkish "F"
type isolation cells.
Recently, she has become involved in projects aimed at moving poetry off
the page and into public spaces. She is the co-producer of two of Montreal
's major literary events: Poésie en mouvement / Poetry in Motion (the
poetry-on-the-buses project, 2004) and the annual Circus of Words / Cirque
des mots, a multidisciplinary, multilingual cabaret celebrating the "theatre" of poetry.
"October" shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Award and set against the
backdrop of the events of the 1970 FLQ Crisis, represented Montreal in a
showcase of the city as "World Book Capital" in 2005-2006. In 2007, she
edited "Quotidian Fever" the new and selected poems of Endre Farkas.
Carolyn holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Concordia
University in Montreal.
Awards
QWF / A.M Klein Award (finalist): 1996, 2000, 2003.
Pat Lowther Memorial Award & Mary Scorer Award (finalist): 2006
Publications
"Swimming into the Light". (Nuage Editions, 1995)
"Fille au bord de l’eau". (Écrits des Forges, 1998)
"October". (Nuage Editions, 1999)
"Snow Formations". (Signature Editions, 2002)
"Satie’s Sad Piano". (Signature Editions, 2005)
"Neiges". (les Éditions Triptyque, 2006)
ISBN: 2-89031-556-8
Books in Print
all of the above
Carolyn Marie Souaid, 518 Birch, St-Lambert, Quebec,
J4P 2N1, (450) 671-7659
Email: csouaid@yahoo.ca
Website: http://www.souaid.com