Sue Chenette

Sue Chenette is the author of Slender Human Weight (Guernica Editions, 2009), The Bones of His Being (Guernica Editions, 2012), and the documentary poem What We Said (Motes Books, 2019), based on her time as a social worker inLyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Her chapbooks include Solitude in Cloud and Sun, A Transport of Grief, and The Time Between Us, which won the Canadian Poetry Association's Shaunt Basmajian Award in 2001. A classical pianist, poet, and editor, she grew up in northern Wisconsin and has made her home in Toronto since 1972.