Sandy Pool

Sandy Pool is a Canadian poet, editor and creative writing instructor. Her first book Exploding into Night was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. Her work has also been anthologized in Writing Without Direction: Ten and a Half Short Stories by Canadian Authors Under Thirty (Clark-Nova Books, 2010), as well as "The Best Canadian Poems 2011", Published by Tightrope Books, and "A Crystal Through Which Love Passes: Glossas for P.K. Page" published by Buschek Books. Her second book, Undark: An Oratorio was published in November 2012 by Nightwood Editions, and was short-listed for an Alberta Book Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
Pool holds a degree in English and Theatre performance from the University of Toronto, and an M.F.A in creative writing from the University of Guelph, and a PhD. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Currently she is the visiting scholar in creative writing and poetics at the Calgary Institute For the Humanities at the University of Calgary.