Betsy Struthers

{{short description|Canadian poet and novelist (born 1951)}}

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|birth_place=Toronto, Ontario, Canada

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1951}}

|occupation=poet, novelist

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Betsy Struthers (born 1951) is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Peterborough, Ontario. She was co-editor (with Sarah Klassen) and contributor to Poets in the Classroom, an anthology of essays about teaching poetry workshops written by members of the League of Canadian Poets. She was president of the League from 1995 to 1997 and has served as chair of its Education Committee and Feminist Caucus. She works as a freelance editor of academic non-fiction texts. Her book Still won the 2004 Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.{{cite web|title=Canadian Poetry -- Betsy Struthers : Biography|url=http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/struthers/index.htm|publisher=University of Toronto|accessdate=28 November 2010}}