Female : Novelist. Married to writer Graeme Gibson

Nationality : Canadian Place of Birth : Ottawa

Date of Birth : 1939

Pseudonyms : Shakesbeat Latweed

Education : University of Toronto & Radcliffe College

1961-1970
Double Persephone (1961 Hawkshead Press, Toronto) - 1st book
Selected Poems
The Circle Game (1964 Cranbrook Academy)
Talismans for Children (1965 CA)
Kaleidoscopes : Baroque (1965 CA)
Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966 CA)
The Circle Game (1966 Contact Press)
Expeditions (1966 CA)
The Animals in that Country (1968 OUP, Toronto) (1968 Little Brown US)
Who was in the Garden (1969 Unicorn US)
The Edible Woman (1969 McClelland & Stewart, Canada) (1969 Deutsch) (1970 LB)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970 OUP, Toronto)
Oratorio for Sasquatch, Man & Two Androids - Poems for Voices (1970 CBC)
Procedures for Underground (1970 OUP, Toronto) (1970 LB)

1971-1980
Power Politics (1971 Anansi) (1972 Mc & S) (1973 Harper & Row)
Survival : A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Surfacing (1972 Mc & S) (1973 Deutsch & Wildwood House) (1973 S & S)
Are You Happy (1974 OUP, Toronto) (1974 Harper & Row)
Poems 1965-1975 (1976 OUP, Canada) (1991 Virago)
Lady Oracle (1976 Mc & S) (1976 S & S) (1977 Deutsch £4.95)
Marsh, Hawk (1977 Dreadnaught)
Dancing Girls & Other Stories (1977 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto) (1982 S & S) (1982 Cape)
Two-Headed Poems (1978 OUP, Toronto) (1981 S & S)
Up in the Tree (1978 McClelland & Stewart)
Life Before Man (1979 Mc & S) (1980 S & S) (1980 Cape)
To See Our World (1980 Morrow, NY)
Anna's Pet (1980 James Lorimer, Toronto) - with Joyce Barkhouse

1981-1985
Bodily Harm (1981 Mc & S) (1982 S & S) (1982 Cape)
True Stories (1981 OUP, Toronto) (1982 S & S) (1982 Cape pb only)
Notes Towards a Poem that Can Never Be Written (1981 Salamander Press) - 200 signed
(Ed) The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (1982 OUP £9.50)
Second Words : Selected Critical Prose (1982 Anansi, Toronto) (1984 Beacon Press, US)
Encounters with the Element Man (1982 Concord, US) - ss
Bluebeard's Egg & Other Stories (1983 Mc & S) (1986 Houghton Mifflin) (1987 Cape)
Unearthing Suite (1983 Grand Union Press) - ss
Murder in the Dark : Short Fictions & Prose Poems (1983 Coach House, Toronto) (1984 Cape)
Snake Poems (1983 Salamander Press)
Interlunar (1984 OUP, Toronto) (1986 Cape)
The Handmaid's Tale (1985 Mc & S) (1986 HM, US) (Cape 1986)
[Filmed in 1990]

AFTER 1986
Selected Poems 2 (1986 OUP, Toronto) (1987 HM) (1992 Virago)
(Ed) The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1986 OUP)
Hurricane Hazel & Other Stories (1986 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 numbered & signed
Cat's Eye (1988 Mc & S) (1989 Doubleday) (1989 Bloomsbury)
Selected Poems 1966-1984 (1990 OUP, Toronto)
Margaret Atwood : Conversations (1990 Ontario Review Press) (1992 Virago)
For the Birds (1990 Douglas & McIntyre, Canada)

1991-1995
Wilderness Tips (1991 Mc & S) (1991 Doubleday) (1991 Bloomsbury)
Wilderness Tips (1991 Bloomsbury £14.99) - ss
Good Bones (1992 Doubleday)) (1993 Virago) - ss
Good Bones : A Poem (1992 Harbour Front Reading Series, Toronto)
The Robber Bride (1993 Bloomsbury £15.99)
Bones & Murder (1994 Nan A Talese, US) (1995 Virago pb 5.99) - ss
Morning in the Burned House (1995 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto) (1995 Virago £8.99)

AFTER 1996
Alias Grace (1996 Bloomsbury £16.99)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1997 Bloomsbury £20) - with Charles Pachter
Eating Fire : Selected Poetry 1965-1995 (1998 Virago £9.99)
The Blind Assassin (2000 Bloomsbury £16.99) - BOOKER PRIZE
Negotiating with the Dead : A Writer on Writing (2002 CUP £13.50)
Oryx and Crake (2003 Bloomsbury £16.99)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2003 MAN BOOKER PRIZE