Susan Glickman worked in publishing in London, England and in Toronto before doing a PhD in English at U of T, where she taught until 1993. Subsequently she taught writing at various places while also working as a freelance editor. These days she just edits, writes, and is learning to paint.

She is the author of eight highly praised books of poetry, most recently Cathedral/Grove (2023). In 2022 she published Artful Flight: Selected Essays, which won silver at the E-Lit Awards and made the longlist for the 2023 “Forward Indies” awards. Her first novel, The Violin Lover (2006) won the Canadian Jewish Book Award and was named one of the year’s best novels by The National Post. Her second, The Tale-Teller (2012), was a best-seller in Québec in French translation. Her “Lunch Bunch” trilogy of kids’ novels has also been translated into French. Safe as Houses, her Toronto murder mystery, got great reviews in 2015 and The Discovery of Flight (2018) was a finalist for “Best Book” at the American Book Fest and translated into Macedonian. The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape (1998) won both the Gabrielle Roy Prize and the Raymond Klibansky Prize.