Bio

Catherine Graham is the author of The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008) Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Watch (Abbey Press, 1998). Her poetry has appeared in literary journals in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland and has been frequently anthologized.

Catherine Graham started to write poetry as a way to explore and make sense of the death of her parents, whom she lost while she was an undergraduate student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. But what began as an outlet for her grief transformed into a passion of its own. She followed this passion to Northern Ireland, where she studied poetry and was influenced by a community of poets and the strong commitment of the Irish people to their writers. While in Northern Ireland, Graham earned an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and published her first collection of poetry. Her work was broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster and anthologized in The White Page / An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (Salmon Publishing, 1999). In 2000, Graham returned to Burlington, Ontario, where her poetry is now included in a permanent art installation at the city's Downtown Waterfront Project.

Graham now lives and writes in Toronto, where she teaches creative writing and designs and delivers workshops on creativity for the business and academic community. She is Marketing Coordinator of the Rowers Pub Reading Series and Vice President of the non-profit organization Project Bookmark Canada, which works to place fictional text in our everyday geography.

You can hear Catherine Graham read from her work at Authors Aloud.