Betsy Struthers is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and novelist who lives in Peterborough

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. She was co-editor (with Sarah Klassen

Sarah Klassen

Sarah Klassen is a Canadian writer. She is the award-winning author of A Feast of Longing and one other short fiction collection, The Peony Season, and five books of poetry....

) and contributor to Poets in the Classroom, an anthology of essays about teaching poetry workshops written by members of the League of Canadian Poets

League of Canadian Poets

The League of Canadian Poets , a non-profit arts service organization, is the national association of professional publishing and spoken word poets in Canada...

. She was president of the League from 1995 to 1997 and has served as chair of its Education Committee and Feminist Caucus. She works as a freelance editor of academic non-fiction texts. Her book Still won the 2004 Pat Lowther Award

Pat Lowther Award

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.-Winners:*1981 - M...

for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.

Works

• Censored Letters (Mosaic Press, 1984), ISBN 0-88962-250-7
• Saying So out Loud (Mosaic Press, 1988), ISBN 0-88962-398-8
• Found: A Body (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1992), ISBN 0-88924-237-2
• Running out of Time (Wolsak and Wynn, 1993), ISBN 0-919897-35-5
• Grave Deeds (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1994), ISBN 0-88924-257-7
• Poets in the Classroom (ed.) (Pembroke, 1995), ISBN 1-55138-055-2
• A Studied Death (fiction) (Simon & Pierre, 1995), ISBN 0-88924-266-6
• Virgin Territory (Wolsak & Wynn, 1996), ISBN 0-919897-51-7
• Driven (Black Moss Press, 2000), ISBN 0-88753-345-0
• Still (Black Moss Press, 2003), ISBN 0-88753-378-7
• In Her Fifties (Black Moss Press, 2005), ISBN 0-88753-402-3