Sue Goyette has published a novel and seven collections of poetry, including Ocean, which won the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award and was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, and the ReLit Award. In 2020, she was appointed the city of Halifax’s eighth poet laureate. Goyette teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University and lives in Halifax.