Susan McMaster is a poet, artist, editor and feminist, well known in her native Ottawa where she grew up and studied at Carleton University. Susan is Editor-in-Chief of Vernissage, the magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and PEN. She has been invited to read across Canada and her work has been broadcast on such national shows as WordBeat, Go!, Richardsons Roundup, As It Happens, and Morningside. She was a founding member of the wordmusic group, First Draft, which performed in Ottawa and across Canada from 1981 to 1990, and she was the founding editor of the national feminist and literary magazine, Branching Out.