Susan McCaslin is a poet, educator, scholar, and essayist who taught for twenty-three years in the English Department at Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia. Her poems have appeared in literary journals across Canada, the United States, and in Europe. She completed her M.A. at Simon Fraser University (1973) and her doctorate at the University of British Columbia (1984). Susan resides with her husband and daughter in Fort Langley, B.C. She offers poetry workshops, gives public talks, and is currently writing a book on poetry and mysticism.
Awards
Cecilia Lamont Poetry Contest, Surrey-White Rock Writer's Group,
prize winner, 1994.
Burnaby Writer's Society Contest, first prize, 1995.
Mother Tongue Chapbook Competition, winner, 1997.
Annual Poetry Contest sponsored by Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, grand prize winner, 2006.
The 18th Annual Literary Writes Poetry Competition,first place, Federation
of B.C. Writers, 2006.
Mother Tongue Annual Poetry Chapbook competition, 1997, first place for "Letters to William Blake"
Burnaby Writers' Society Annual Poetry Competition, 2005, first place for "Faith is the Evidence"
Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction Annual Poetry
Contest, 2006, Grand Prize Winner for "A Dream of Thomas Merton"
Selected Publications
Lifting the Stone
(Seraphim Editions,
2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9735487-8-5
A Plot of Light
(Oolichan Books,
2004)
ISBN: 0-88982-197-6
At the Mercy Seat (Ronsdale
Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55380-003-6.
Common Longing: The Teresa Poems
and
a Canticle for Mary and Martha (Mellen Poetry Press, 2001) ISBN
0-7734-3424-0.
The Altering Eye (Borealis Press, 2000) ISBN 0-88887-232-1
(bound)l ISBN 0-8887-230-5 9 (paper).
Flying Wounded (The University
Press of Florida, 2000) ISBN 0-8130-1796-3 (cloth); ISBN 0-8130-1797-1
(paper).
Into the Open (Golden Eagle Press, 1999) self-published,
ISBN 0-920871-05-4.
Oracular Heart (Hawthorne Society, Reference West, 1999). ISBN
1-894010-36.
Veil/Unveil (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 1997) ISBN 0-9697802-4-9.
Letters to William Blake. (Mother Tongue Press, 1997).
Light Housekeeping. (Ekstasis Editions, 1995) ISBN
1-896860-14-1.
Locutions. (Ekstasis Editions, 1995) ISBN 0-921215-88-6.
Thinking about God. Illustrated children's book. (Twenty-Third
Publications: Mystic Connecticut, 1994). ISBN 0-89622-615-8.
The Visions of the Seven Sleepers
(The Iona Press, 1979), printed on hand-set press, available from the
author.
Kindling (Arion Press, 1979),
self-published, available from author.
Motions of the Hearts
(self-published, 1978), available from the author.
Selected Anthologies
Editor, Poetry and Spiritual Practice
(The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2002) ISBN 0-9685339-7-3.
Editor, A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in
Contemporary
Canadian Poetry. (Ekstasis Editions, 1998) ISBN 1-896860-24-9.
Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam Era (Seraphim Editions,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9808879-1-4
Books in Print
McCaslin, Susan
All books are in print with the exception of Common Longing and Thinking About God.
Susan McCaslin
www.susanmccaslin.ca