Betsy Struthers is the Winner of the 2004 Pat Lowther Memorial Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman for Still (Black Moss Press), Betsy Struthers has published eight books of poetry and three novels as well as co-editing an anthology of essays about teaching poetry. Her newest book, Relay: A Series of Short Fictions, will be published by Black Moss Press in Fall 2010. Struthers received the Silver Medal as runner-up for the Milton Acorn
People's Poetry Award in 1994 and was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award in 1993. A past president of the League of Canadian Poets, she has read

her work from coast to coast in Canada, in Australia, and in North Carolina; her poems and fiction have been published in many anthologies (most recently, In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry and Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry) and literary journals; she has taught workshops in both poetry and fiction to students of all ages from kindergarten to adults from Goose Bay, Labrador to Victoria, BC. Resident in Peterborough since 1977, Struthers works as a freelance editor of academic texts.