Susan Goyette Explained

Susan Goyette
Birth Date:4 April 1964
Birth Place:Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Awards:CBC Literary Award (2008)

Susan (Sue) Goyette (born 4 April 1964 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Biography

Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Goyette grew up in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, on Montreal's south shore.

Her first poetry book, The True Names of Birds (1998), was nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Goyette's first novel, Lures (2002), was nominated for the 2003 Thomas Head Raddall Award. She has also written another poetry collection, Undone (2004), and won the 2008 CBC Literary Award in poetry for the poem "Outskirts".[1] [2] The poetry collection of the same name, Outskirts, won the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2012.[3] Goyette's fourth poetry collection, Ocean, was published in 2013 by Gaspereau Press.[4] Her fifth poetry collection, The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, was published in 2015 by Gaspereau Press.[5]

Goyette's collection Ocean is the recipient of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award, which recognizes the excellence of a particular work of art or design from any media and carries a cash value of $25,000.[6]

Goyette has been a member of the faculty of The Maritime Writers' Workshop, The Banff Wired Studio, and The Sage Hill Writing Experience.

Goyette was a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Personal life

She presently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Dalhousie University. In April 2020, she was named the city's eighth poet laureate.[7]

Her stepson, Colin Munro, currently lives in the United Kingdom, where he performs as a drag queen under the name Crystal, and was a competitor in the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.[8]

Awards and honours

Her 2020 poetry collection Anthesis was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for poetry in 2021,[9] and Georgette LeBlanc's French translation of Goyette's Ocean won the Governor General's Award for English to French translation at the 2020 Governor General's Awards.[10]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CBC Literary Awards – Winners . 2009-02-28 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090304175303/http://www.radio-canada.ca/prixlitteraires/english/pwinners2008.shtml . 4 March 2009 .
  2. News: Love lit: CBC Literary Awards announced tomorrow . 2009-03-06 . Sue . Carter Flynn . . ArtAttack . . 25 February 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927131845/http://www.thecoast.ca/ArtAttack/archives/2009/02/25/love_lit_cbc_literary_awards . 27 September 2011 .
  3. "Congratulations to Sue Goyette --winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize for her book Outskirts!!" http://www.brickbooks.ca/?p=3522
  4. Web site: Gaspereau Press – Book Information.
  5. Web site: Gaspereau Press – Book Information. gaspereau.com. 2016-03-12.
  6. Web site: Ocean Wins 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. The Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. 2016-03-12.
  7. Stephen Cooke, "Sue Goyette named Halifax's new poet laureate". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 28 April 2020.
  8. Morgan Mullin, "Former Haligonian announced as competitor on the first-ever UK edition of RuPaul's Drag Race". The Coast, 15 August 2019.
  9. https://www.cbc.ca/books/38-books-shortlisted-for-2021-relit-awards-1.5993333 "38 books shortlisted for 2021 ReLit Awards"
  10. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1797589/sophie-letourneau-laureate-prix-litteraire-gouverneur-general "La Québécoise Sophie Létourneau lauréate d’un Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général"
  11. News: Teenage Wasteland (review) . Juliet . Waters . 2002 . . 2009-03-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081123034218/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/051602/book.html . 23 November 2008 .
  12. Web site: Suffering Beautifully (review) . Maureen . Lennon . Books in Canada: The Canadian Review of Books . 2009-03-13.
  13. Web site: Lures (review) . Lorna . Jackson . January 2002 . . 2009-02-28.
  14. News: Smells Like Teen Dispirit (review) . Katherine . Govier . March 2002 . The Globe and Mail. Toronto . 2009-03-13.
  15. Web site: Antigonish Review #141 . 2011-03-15 . Antigonish Review . Lorri . Neilson Glenn . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101212131747/http://antigonishreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=220&Itemid=65 . 12 December 2010 .
  16. Web site: First Writes . 2009-05-12 . .
  17. Web site: Abraham | Brick Books.
  18. Web site: NameBright – Coming Soon.
  19. Web site: Gaspereau Press – Book Information.

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