Susan Holbrook is a Canadian poet,[1] whose collection Throaty Wipes was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.
[2] Her debut poetry collection, misled, was published in 1999 while she was a graduate student at the University of Calgary.
[5] She then began teaching literature and creative writing at the University of Windsor,[6] and followed up with Good Egg Bad Seed in 2004 and Joy Is So Exhausting in 2009.
[7] She has also published the poetry textbook How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (2015), and wrote the play Why Do I Feel Guilty in the Changeroom at Britannia Pool?
[8] Her 2021 collection Ink Earl was shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for poetry.