Fondo F0469 - Susan Ioannou fonds

Susan Ioannou, teacher, editor and writer, was born in Toronto in 1944 and educated at the University of Toronto where she received a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature in 1966 and 1967, respectively. She has worked as an English Specialist for Bloor Collegiate Institute and has served in various editorial positions for publications including "Coiffure du Canada", "Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly/Magazine" and "The Arts Scarborough Newsletter. She has given numerous presentations to writers' groups, as well as workshops for the Toronto Board of Education, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Education. She founded Wordwrights Canada in 1985 and from 1988 to 2001 ran The Poetry Tutorial writer's correspondence course. She now works as Executive Editor of ClearTEXT Rewriting and Editing. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry including "Clarity Between Clouds" and "Where the Light Waits" as well as the literary study "A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem". Her poems have also been published in various anthologies, magazines and journals.