Susan Cormier is a spoken word artist, event producer, beekeeper, and author of the BC Bestseller Dead Bees Still Sting. Her lyrical essay “Advice to a New Beekeeper” won the 2022 CBC Prize in Nonfiction. She has also won or been shortlisted for such awards as CBC’s Prize in Poetry, Arc Magazine’s Poem of the Year, Anvil Press/SubTerrain Magazine’s Lush Triumphant, and the Federation of B.C. Writers’ Literary Writes award. Her work has appeared in publications including SubTerrain, Blood and Aphorisms New Fiction, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, and West Coast Line, and several anthologies including Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poets; Against Death: 35 Essays on Living; and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workplace. She produces Vancouver Story Slam, Canada’s longest-running live indie storytelling competition, and is known for her dynamic, engaging readings. Susan Cormier lives in a charming little town in British Columbia, Canada.