Crystal Hurdle teaches English and Creative Writing at Capilano University in North Vancouver, BC. In October 2007, she was Guest Poet at the International Sylvia Plath Symposium at the University of Oxford, reading from her After Ted & Sylvia: Poems (Ronsdale, 2003). Teacher's Pets, a teen novel in verse, was published in 2014 and SICK WITCH (Ronsdale) is being published in 2020. She lives in North Vancouver, BC.