Crystal HURDLE

Crystal HURDLE, BA, MA (UVic)

Academic Bio:
Crystal Hurdle teaches English and Creative Writing at Capilano University. From UVIC, she obtained a BA and MA in English, as well as certification for teaching high school students and for teaching English as a Second Language.

Writing and Publications:

After Ted & Sylvia: Poems, about, to, and for poets Plath and Hughes, was published by Ronsdale Press in 2003. A self-confessed Plath and Hughes addict, she has developed and taught a poetry course in which their work figures prominently. Last October, as Guest Poet at the International Sylvia Plath Symposium at the University of Oxford, Crystal read from the text there and at Blackwell's Bookstore.

Her work, poetry and prose, has been published in many journals, including Canadian Literature, Event, Bogg, Fireweed, Dandelion, Whetstone, The Dalhousie Review, The Capilano Review, Grain, The Windsor Review, The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Contemporary Verse 2, The Fiddlehead, Transition, The Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Vallum, Other Voices, Room of One’s Own, and in Pooka Press' poetry postcard series and photobooth series, as well as the anthologies The Eloquent She: Arms Like Ladders and Body Breakdowns: Tales of Illness and Recovery.

Work is forthcoming in The Wascana Review, Rubicon Press, Bogg, as well as the anthologies Silver Boomers and Honoring Motherhood: Prayers, Ceremonies, and Blessings.

Crystal was Fiction Editor of The Capilano Review in the late eighties and currently sits on the board of directors for the magazine.

Interests:
In her free time she enjoys cycling, creating textile arts, and reading and writing Children's Literature. A beginning student of ballet for 25 years, she hopes to some day move to the intermediate level.