Shirley Graham's books include Blue Notes (Mother Tongue Press), What Someone Wanted and Book of Blue (Black Moss Press). She is a child psychologist and lives on Salt Spring Island with her husband, poet Peter Levitt, and son Tai. She loves books, Shakespeare, art, gardens, Zen, and the colour blue.

"Graham has the virtuosic skill of rendering a moment eternal." –Don Domanski, Governor General's Award for Poetry