About Sue Sorensen
Sue Sorensen lives in Winnipeg, where she teaches English at Canadian Mennonite University. Her latest book is Acutely Life, published by At Bay Press in 2024. In 2015 she published The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film. She is the author of a novel, A Large Harmonium (2011), winner of Best First book at the Manitoba book Awards, and she’s also the editor of West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature (2008).
Sue’s poetry has been published in journals such as The New Quarterly, Malahat Review, CV2, Grain, Room, and Prairie Fire. Her work “Blue: Three Sonnets to Mary” won Best Poem in Exile’s 2017 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. Academic publications range from studies of the novels of A. S. Byatt, Henry James, Ian McEwan, and Guy Vanderhaeghe to detective fiction, children's books, rock lyricists, and the filmmaking of Neil Young. She is a grateful member of the welcoming and caring community at Winnipeg’s Home Street Mennonite Church. In 2021 she took on the direction of academic publisher CMU Press. Sue loves movies, music, and photography.
Ashes, 2016
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