Biography

S.E. Venart writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Recent publications include Grain and Queen's Quarterly as well as This Magazine, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Books in Canada, Matrix, and Prism International. Work has also been anthologized in Telling Stories and A Room at the Heart of Things. Awards include This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt (2002 & 2005) and the QWF- Short StoryCompetition (2002).  

S.E. Venart has received a Heinz fellowship to attend Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, as well as grants to attend The Millay Colony for the Arts and Ledig International Writer's Colony in New York; The Banff Centre for the Arts Writing Studio in Alberta; and the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain. She has received funding for both poetry and prose from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts du Quebec.

Her  first collection of poems, edited by Barry Dempster and Liz Phillips, is coming out in the fall of 2007 from Brick. A chapbook, Neither Apple Nor Pear / Weder Apfel Noch Birne  (with translations by German poet Hendrik Rost), is available from Toronto's Junction Press.

S.E. Venart received an MA in Creative Writing & English from Concordia University.  She has BAs from Mount Allison and York Universities. She  lives in Montreal with translator Mathieu Robitaille and works as a  freelance editor and an instructor of literature and creative writing at John Abbott College. 

For more information, download her Curriculum Vitae (pdf) or contact sv@woodshedding.org