Catherine Hunter (born 1957 in
Winnipeg
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,
Manitoba
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) is a
Canadian
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poet
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,
novelist
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, editor, professor, and critic.
Biography
Hunter received a
BA (Hons.) from the
University of Winnipeg
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and an
MA and
PhD
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from the
University of Victoria
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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
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