Suzannah
Showler
Suzannah Showler is the author of two collections of poetry, Thing is and Failure to Thrive, and a book of cultural criticism, Most Dramatic Ever. She also writes for magazines and teaches creative writing. Her debut novel, Quality Time, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in 2023. Showler was a finalist for the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for her collection “The Reason and Other Poems.” She currently lives on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations (Vancouver).
Award History
Jury Citation
“These poems distinguish themselves by the quality of their poetic intelligence. They are astute, linguistically and syntactically adept, and full of sonic energy. Often startlingly precise in their descriptions, they lead us from the bodily to the metaphysical. Sometimes they flare up like fireworks; sometimes they sound a quiet sorrowing over human distances and dilemmas.” — 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury (Mary Dalton, Susan Holbrook, and Phil Hall)
