Sue Sinclair

Sue Sinclair grew up in Newfoundland and Labrador, on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including her latest book, Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane Editions, 2022), winner of the 2022 New Brunswick Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2023 Walcott Prize. Sue’s previous title, Heaven's Thieves (Brick Books, 2016), won the 2017 Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman; all her other books have also won or been nominated for a variety of awards. Sue has a PhD in philosophy and wrote her dissertation on beauty and ethics. She currently edits for Brick Books and teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick on Wolastoqiyik territory, land of the “beautiful and bountiful river.”