[1] Simpson was the co-winner of the 1997 Journey Prize,[4] awarded for her short story Dreaming Snow.
[citation needed] Loop contains many poems composed in sequences, including, notably, a poetic demonstration of a Möbius strip.
[5] Her other poetry collections include Light Falls Through You (McClelland & Stewart, 2000), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize,[citation needed] Quick (McClelland & Stewart, 2007), winner of the Pat Lowther Award, and Is (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) in which Simpson 'negotiates an ever-changing path between language and structure'.
[6] Simpson has written three novels: Speechless (Freehand, 2020), Canterbury Beach (Penguin, 2001) and Falling (McClelland & Stewart, 2008), which was a Canadian bestseller and winner of the Dartmouth Fiction Award.
[citation needed] She has also written a book of essays on poetics, The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness (Gaspereau, 2009).