Sandy Shreve Biography | Poet

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.