Susan Andrews Grace was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan in 1949. She has lived in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Brandon, Manitoba, Burnaby, British Columbia, and Toronto. In addition to writing poetry, she is a visual artist working in textiles. She has had a number of solo and group exhibitions, and in 1987 was codesigner and coordinator of a community project for a Peace Quilt, which received a Peace Messenger Award from the United Nations. She is also publisher of Hag Papers, an imprint of Underwhich Editions, Canada's oldest underground literary/art press.
Awards
Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, 1998.
Saskatchewan Poetry Book of the Year, finalist, 1998.
Selected Publications
Wearing My Father (chapbook). (Underwhich Editions, 1990).
Water is the First World. (Coteau Books, 1991).
Ferry Woman's History of the World. (Coteau Books, forthcoming 1998).
Selected Anthologies
Heading Out: The New Saskatchewan Poets. (Coteau Books, 1986).
A Labour of Love: An Anthology of Poetry on Pregnancy and Childbirth.
(Polestar Press, 1989).
Our Fathers. (Rowan Books, 1995).