Libby Scheier

Libby Scheier is the author of Saints and Runners—Stories and a Novella, three books of poetry, including Sky—A Poem in Four Pieces, and is the co-editor of the essay collection Language in Her Eye. Scheier’s poetry, fiction, and criticism have appeared in numerous anthologies, notably collections by Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and Oxford University Press in Toronto. She’s been a literary columnist at the Toronto Star, and her work has appeared in many periodicals, including The Malahat Review, Descant, The Globe and Mail, and This Magazine. She taught in the Creative Writing Program at York University for seven years (1988–95) and since 1994 has been founder/director of the Toronto Writing Workshop.