Sina Queyras

Sina Queyras is a Canadian poet. Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award.

In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press. She later edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for Drunken Boat, where she is a contributing editor. From 2005 to 2007 Queyras co-curated the belladonna* reading series in New York. Her most recent work, Expressway, was written mainly in Calgary, while she was serving as Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies including Joyland: A hub for short fiction. She teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, and has taught at Haverford College and Rutgers University.

Essays

• Unleashed (2010)

Poetry

• Someone from the Hollow (1995)
• Slip (2001)
• Teethmarks (2004)
• Lemon Hound (2006)
• Expressway (2009)

Anthologies

• Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (2005)

External links

• Lemon Hound