Heather Cadsby was born in Belleville, Ontario and moved to Toronto at a young age. She obtained a BA degree from McMaster University and taught elementary school for a number of years. In the 1980s she helped organize poetry readings at the Axle-Tree Coffee House in Toronto. A co-founder of the poetry press Wolsak and Wynn, she has recently served as a director of the Art Bar Poetry Series.
Could be is her fourth book of poetry.

Awards
A Tantrum of Synonyms: finalist Pat Lowther Award, 1998
Grain Magazine: Postcard Story Contest, second prize, 2000
The Antigonish Review: Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest, third prize, 2001

Selected Publications
Traditions. (Fiddlehead Poetry Books/Goose Lane Editions, 1981)
ISBN: 0-86492-007-5
Decoys (Mosaic Press, 1988) ISBN: 0-88962-399-6
A Tantrum of Synonyms (Wolsak and Wynn, 1997) ISBN: 0-919897-57-6
Could be (Brick Books, 2009) ISBN: 1-894078-73-X

Selected Anthologies
Love & Hunger: An Anthology of New Fiction (Aya Press, 1988) ISBN: 0-920544-56-8
Vivid: Stories by Five Women (Aya/Mercury Press, 1989) ISBN: 0-920544-65-7
The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9783351-7-5

Books in Print
Traditions. (Fiddlehead Poetry Books/Goose Lane Editions, 1981)
ISBN: 0-86492-007-5
Decoys (Mosaic Press, 1988) ISBN: 0-88962-399-6
A Tantrum of Synonyms (Wolsak and Wynn, 1997) ISBN: 0-919897-57-6
Could be (Brick Books, 2009) ISBN: 1-894078-73-X