Cathy Stonehouse

Cathy Stonehouse is a British-born poet and writer who has lived in Canada since 1988.
Stonehouse grew up in Holmes Chapel, a village in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England. In 1988, having obtained a BA in English from Wadham College, Oxford, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to study creative writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where she has lived ever since.
Her first volume of poetry, The Words I Know, was published by the now-defunct Press Gang Publishers in 1994.
She edited Event magazine from 2001 to 2004. Since 2006 she has taught Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University.
In 2008 she co-edited, with Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam, a creative non-fiction anthology entitled Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood.
In May 2011 she published a volume of short fiction, Something About the Animal.
Her second volume of poetry, Grace Shiver, was published in January 2012.

• Story That’s My Girl in Eye Wuz Here: Stories by Women Writers Under 30 Douglas and McIntyre 1996 ISBN 1-55054-524-8
• Essay Acting Lessons in You Be Me Annick Press 2002 ISBN 1-55037-738-8
• Essay Truth, Dare, Kiss, Command or Promise: Fragments of a Life in Perfectly Secret Annick Press 2004 ISBN 1-55037-864-3, reprinted in What My Father Gave Me Annick Press 2010 ISBN 978-1-55451-254-6
• Essay In the Presence of Grace in Beyond the Small Circle: Dropped Threads 3 Vintage Books 2006 ISBN 0-679-31385-0
• Poems in White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood Demeter Press 2008 ISBN 1-55014-484-7
• Story A Little Winter in Best Canadian Stories 10 Oberon Press 2011 ISBN 978-0-7780-1353-2