Susan Scott
BIO
Biography
Susan Scott is a Great Lakes writer and editor working at the crossroads of story, spirit, self, and culture. She has midwifed dozens of books and essays and has been editing with The New Quarterly (tnq.ca) since 2009.
Collaborations with artists, activists, and scholars have spawned award-winning initiatives in the environmental humanities and in arts-and-culture work with First Nations, immigrants, and settlers. Edited collections include Body & Soul, celebrating frank, intimate essays by Canadian women writers and poets.
Temple in a Teapot--a limited edition chapbook launched on a 1,000 mile women writers' tour throughout the Western states--is an irreverent take on the sublime and the suppressed in American religious history.
ADDRESS
City: Waterloo,
Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
sscott@tnq.ca
GENRE
creative nonfiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Foreword to Linda Trinh's Seeking Spiriti: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir
Publisher
Guernica
Year
2025
Title
The Spiritual Life Writing Workbook: From Concept to Bookshelf
Publisher
Connex Publishing
Year
2025
Title
Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers
Publisher
Caitlin Press
Year
2019
Title
Temple in a Teapot: In which the pilgrim carts the remains of her good dishes to the first Mormon temple, in Ohio
Publisher
West Meadow Press
Year
2010
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Ontario Arts Council recommender grants for writers
Name
TWUC mentorship micro-grant
Name
Region of Waterloo Arts Fund project grant
LINKS
Links
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
All members are eligible for the Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program. Are you interested in participating in this pro
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Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
The Union’s Northern Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program funds in-person visits to northern Ontario schools when possible. Ar
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