Sue Goyette

Sue Goyette is the award-winning author of six books of poems and a novel. Now Halifax’s eighth poet laureate, she was nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award for her collection Ocean, which won several other prizes, including the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the Bliss Carman, the Earle Birney, the Pat Lowther, and the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. She lives in Halifax and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University.