Susan Ioannou (born 1944) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She was previously an English teacher at Bloor Collegiate Institute, for six years during the 1970s. From 1980 to 1989, she served as Associate Editor of Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly/Magazine, and into the 1990s, led poetry workshops for the Toronto Board of Education, Ryerson University, and University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. In 1985, she founded the writers' resource Wordwrights Canada, and in 1988, created its poetry course, now the online Lessons in Writing the Poem.
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