Catherine Hunter (born 1957 in

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, editor, professor, and critic.

Biography

Hunter received a BA (Hons.) from the

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and an MA and

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from the

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. She is a faculty member at the University of Winnipeg where she teaches English and creative writing courses. Her first published poems appeared in the ''Malahat Review'' in 1978. Hunter's writing has since appeared in '' Prairie Fire'', ''Essays on Canadian Writing'', ''Canadian Literature,'' and several other literary periodicals. Hunter received the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award for ''Latent Heat'' (1997), a poetry collection. She has also edited books of poetry for the Muses' Company Press. Hunter's most recent work of fiction is the murder mystery novel ''Queen of Diamonds.'' Published by Turnstone Press imprint Ravenstone, ''Queen of Diamonds'' is a mystery thriller about fake psychics and their wealthy clientele, set in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was launched and became available to the public in November 2006.

Bibliography

Poetry

*''Necessary Crimes'' - 1988 () *''Lunar Wake'' - 1994 () *''Latent Heat'' - 1997 ()

Novels

*''After Light'' - 2015 () *''Where Shadows Burn'' - 1999 () *''The Dead of Midnight'' - 2001 ()) *''The First Early Days of My Death'' - 2002 () *''Queen of Diamonds'' - 2006 ()

Anthologies

*''Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier'' - 2005 (with Lorna Crozier) ()

References

1957 births Living people Canadian women poets Canadian women novelists 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets Writers from Winnipeg 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Manitoba Book Awards winners Poets from Manitoba {{Canada-poet-stub