Cathy Stonehouse

Cathy Stonehouse (born 1966) is a British-born poet and writer who has lived in Canada since 1988.

Stonehouse grew up in Holmes Chapel, a village in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England.

In 1988, having obtained a BA in English from Wadham College, Oxford, she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to study creative writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where she has lived ever since.

In 2008, she co-edited, with Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam, a creative non-fiction anthology entitled Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood.

Her second volume of poetry, Grace Shiver, was published in January 2012.