Carolyn Marie Souaid is a teacher, book reviewer (The Gazette), and the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Satie?s Sad Piano (Signature Editions, 2005). Her work has been produced for CBC-Radio, and has been published nationally and internationally. She has appeared at many literary festivals across Canada, and was recently sent to Paris, France as part of a Canadian delegation of four poets invited to participate in the 4th International Symposium Against Isolation (a five-day forum on the inhumane treatment of prisoners of conscience in Turkey).

For the past two years, she has become involved in projects aimed at moving poetry off the page and into public spaces. She is the co-producer (with Endre Farkas) of two major Montreal events: Poésie en mouvement / Poetry in Motion (the poetry-on-the-buses project, 2004) and Cirque des mots / Circus of Words, a multilingual cabaret of performance poetry (2005). This year, one of her earlier books, October, set against the backdrop of the events of the FLQ crisis of 1970 will be representing Montreal in a display celebrating â??Montreal World Book Capital. She is the Quebec/Nunavut rep on the national council for the League of Canadian Poets.

More about the author

AUTHOR BIO (partial) & PHOTO
http://www.vehiculepress.com/montreal/gallery/souaid.html

INTERVIEW WITH THE LINK (THE CONCORDIA NEWSPAPER) ABOUT RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY & POETRY IN GENERAL
http://thelink.concordia.ca/lit/04/10/25/1831237.shtml

RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY BIO (recent)
http://www.abebooks.com/docs/randomactsofpoetry/bios.shtml

PUBLISHER?S WEBSITE INFO (SNOW FORMATIONS):
http://www.signature-editions.com/xdsf.htm

BOOK REVIEW (Montreal Review of Books):
http://www.aelaq.org/mrb/article.php?issue=11&article=283&cat=