Catherine Hunter is a Canadian

Canada

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 poet

Poet

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, novelist, editor, professor and critic.

Hunter received a BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 (Hons.) from the University of Winnipeg

University of Winnipeg

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 and an MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 and PhD

PHD

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 from the University of Victoria

University of Victoria

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. She is a faculty member at the University of Winnipeg where she teaches English and creative writing courses.

Her first published poems appeared in the Malahat Review in 1978. Hunter's writing has since appeared in Prairie Fire

Prairie Fire (magazine)

Prairie Fire is a Canadian literary magazine. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the magazine publishes as a quarterly. Prairie Fire magazine was created in hopes to expand Canadians' knowledge and awareness of literary work rather than focusing on mainstream writings of our generation. Included in the...

, Essays on Canadian Writing, Canadian Literature and a number of other literary periodicals.

Hunter received the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award for Latent Heat (1997), a collection of poetry.

She has also edited books of poetry for the Muses' Company Press.

Hunter's most recent work of fiction is the murder mystery novel Queen of Diamonds. Published by Turnstone Press imprint Ravenstone, Queen of Diamonds is a mystery thriller about fake psychics and their wealthy clientele, set in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was launched and became available to the public in November 2006.

Poetry

• Necessary Crimes - 1988 (ISBN 1-896239-60-9)
• Lunar Wake - 1994 (ISBN 0-88801-184-9)
• Latent Heat - 1997 (ISBN 0-921833-55-5)

Novels

• Where Shadows Burn - 1999 (ISBN 0-88801-231-4)
• The Dead of Midnight - 2001 (ISBN 0-88801-261-6))
• The First Early Days of My Death - 2002 (ISBN 0-921833-87-3)
• Queen of Diamonds - 2006 (ISBN 0-88801-322-1)

Anthologies

• Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier - 2005 (with Lorna Crozier
  Lorna Crozier
  Lorna Crozier is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria....
  
  ) (ISBN 0-88920-489-6)