An author of poems, stories, and children's verse, Colleen Thibaudeau has been actively involved with Canadian small presses and the League of Canadian Poets since the mid 1960s. She has given numerous poetry readings, and her work has appeared in a wide variety of periodicals and anthologies. She is known as a children's poet, exploring such forms as concrete poetry and participation poetry, as well as a writer of thematically complex, linguistically demanding poetry for mature audiences.

It was not until the late 1970s that Thibaudeau's writing reached a wide readership. There were two events that helped bring about recognition of the literary merit of her work: the publication of Thibaudeau's poetry collection My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair in 1977 and the winter 1979 appearance of Brick 5, which featured writing by Thibaudeau and critical appraisals of it.

Thibaudeau was born on 29 December 1925 in Toronto. From the Markdale...