SUSAN GLICKMAN was raised in Montreal and studied and travelled in Europe, Asia and America before settling in Toronto, where she lives with her husband, glass artist Toan Klein, two children, two guinea pigs, a dog and an ever varying number of guppies. She has always been involved with books, working at a bookstore and in the publishing sector as an editor before teaching English and Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. She has also taught creative writing ar Ryerson University and at the Avenue Road School of the Arts, and for two years taught English at the Lycee Francais de Toronto.

Susan has written five collections of poetry: Complicity, The Power to Move, Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poems, Hide & Seek, and Running in Prospect Cemetery: New & Selected Poems. Her writing has been included in a number of anthologies including Being Alive and The Norton Introduction to Poetry. Translations of Susan's writing have appeared in Quebec anthologies and French literary journals. She has given poetry readings across Canada and the United States as well as in Mexico, France and England.

The Picturesque and the Sublime: Poetics of the Canadian Landscape, a work of literary history and criticism, won the 1998 Gabrielle Roy Prize (Best Work of English Canadian Literary Criticism) and the 1999 Raymond Klibansky Book Prize. Susan's first novel, The Violin Lover, was published in the spring of 2006 from Goose Lane Editions. She is currently working on another novel, and on another book of adult poetry, as well as some books for young readers in both poetry and prose.