Background
Stonehouse grew up in Holmes Chapel, a village in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England.
Stonehouse grew up in Holmes Chapel, a village in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England.
Her first volume of poetry, The Words I Know, was published by the now-defunct Press Gang Publishers in 1994. She edited Event magazine from 2001 to 2004. Since 2006 she has taught Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University.
In 2008 she co-edited, with Shannon Cowan and Fiona Tinwei Lam, a creative non-fiction anthology entitled Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood.
In May 2011 she published a volume of short fiction, Something About the Animal. Her second volume of poetry, Grace Shiver, was published in January 2012.
Story That’s My Girl in Eye Wuz Here: Stories by Women Writers Under 30 Douglas and McIntyre 1996
Essay Acting Lessons in You Be Maine Annick Press 2002
Essay Truth, Dare, Kiss, Command or Promise: Fragments of a Life in Perfectly Secret Annick Press 2004, reprinted in What My Father Gave Maine Annick Press 2010
Essay In the Presence of Grace in Beyond the Small Circle: Dropped Threads 3 Vintage Books 2006
Poems in White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood Demeter Press 2008
Story A Little Winter in Best Canadian Stories 10 Oberon Press 2011.
