To contact JC, email infosulzenko@gmail.com.
JC Sulzenko’s award-winning poetry appears in anthologies and journals in print and online either under her own name or her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss.
Found poetry and its kinship with collage have become her passions. Her third poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue (Aeolus House, 2024), features over 60, five-line poems drawing words unaltered from obituaries published in the Globe and Mail.
Bricolage: A Gathering of Centos (Aeolus House), her second book of poetry, was named a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association’s 2022 national Fred Kerner Award. Her centos had won the 2023 and 2019 Wind & Water Contests (County Arts.) Point Petre Publishing issued her debut collection of narrative and lyric poetry, South Shore Suite…POEMS, in 2017.
With Carol A. Stephen, JC co-authored poetry chapbooks, Slant of Light and Breathing Mutable Air. Her ekphrastic poems were featured in the County CollAboRaTive project and appear online in The Light Ekphrastic .
She curated poetry selections for the Ekphrasis at Blizzmax Gallery exhibition and chapbook.
JC’s six books for children and families include her play and related storybook about dementia, What my Grandma Means to Say. Her work has been performed at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, the Puppets Up! International Festival and at the National Arts Centre for the School of Dance (Ottawa.)
The Ottawa International Writers Festival, Canadian Authors Association, the Ottawa Public Library, City of Ottawa, County Arts, The Griffin Trio, and many school boards and Alzheimer societies hosted her workshops. She judged poetry contests for the League of Canadian Poets, the Canadian Authors Association, and the Ottawa Public Library.
Active in writing circles in Ottawa and Prince Edward County and more recently in Toronto, JC offers mentoring services to emerging poets. She selects poems for the online journal bywords.ca and founded and curated the “Poetry Quarter” in the Glebe Report (2015-2023).
A full member of the League of Canadian Poets, JC serves on the Board of the Ontario Poetry Society. JC writes poetry on commission and creates impromptu poems as fundraisers for charitable causes. She welcomes opportunities to introduce her work to community groups.
JC remains an avid, if forever amateur, birder and a devotee of her grandchildren and standard poodles.