Susan McCaslin has published eighteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Field Play (Ekstasis Editions, 2024). Her handcrafted chapbook, Sentient Stones (Raven Press) came out in June 2023. In Dec. 2022 her poem, "Consider the Western Red Cedar" won first place in the Federation of BC Writers annual poetry contest. A chapbook, Cosmic Egg, was published by The Alfred Gustav Poetry Series in June 2021. Her Into the Open: New and Selected Poems (Inanna) came out in the Fall of 2017. She also published a volume of essays, Arousing the Spirit: Provocative Writings (Wood Lake Books, 2011). Previous volumes of poetry include The Disarmed Heart (The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2014) and Demeter Goes Skydiving (University of Alberta Press, 2011). The latter was short-listed for the BC Book Prize (Dorothy Livesay Award) and first-place winner of the Alberta Book Publishing Award (Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award) in 2012. Susan has edited two poetry anthologies, published a volume of essays and reflections titled Arousing the Spirit (Wood Lake Books, 2011), and a memoir, Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga (Inanna Publications, 2014). Her collaborative monograph of creative non-fiction with J.S. Porter, Thomas Merton: Superabundantly Alive was published by Wood Lake Books in 2018. Additionally, she edited poet E.D. Blodgett's posthumous volume of poetry titled Walking Into God (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2024). Susan completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at UBC (1984) and taught English and Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC from 1984-2007. Her deepest interests lie in poetry of the sacred east and west and ecopoetics. Susan resides outside Fort Langley, British Columbia where she initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project in 2012 as part of a successful campaign to protect an endangered rainforest along the Fraser River in British Columbia. website: www.susanmccaslin.ca