Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Tregebov attended the University of Manitoba, Cornell and Boston universities. For many years she lived in Toronto, working as a freelance writer, editor, and Creative Writing Instructor. She taught Continuing Education for Ryerson University and was on faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In January, 2005 she began work as an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia, specializing in poetry and translation.

Poetry

• Remembering History - 1982 (winner of the Pat Lowther Award), ISBN 0-919349-16-1
• No One We Know - 1986, ISBN 0-920544-44-4
• The Proving Grounds - 1991, ISBN 1-55065-018-1
• Mapping the Chaos - 1995, ISBN 1-55065-070-X
• The Strength of Materials - 2001, ISBN 0-919897-76-2
• (alive): Selected and new poems - 2004, ISBN 0-919897-98-3

Children's books

• The Extraordinary Ordinary Everything Room - 1991, ISBN 0-929005-24-4
• The Big Storm - 1992, ISBN 1-55074-081-4
• Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth - 1993, ISBN 0-929005-51-1
• Sasha and the Wind - 1996, ISBN 0-929005-84-8
• What-If Sara - 1999, ISBN 1-896764-22-3

Novels

• The Knife Sharpener's Bell - 2009, ISBN 978-1-55050-408-8