Alexandra Oliver
Alexandra Oliver | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Notable works | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Alexandra Oliver is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.[1]
A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[2] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.[3]
Her first published collection of poetry, Where the English Housewife Shines, was released in 2007.[4] Meeting the Tormentors followed in 2013.[3]
References
- ^ "Anne Compton, Alexandra Oliver, Murray Reiss win League of Canadian Poets awards". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2014.
- ^ "Hot Shots of '93: They're young and they're dazzling". Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
- ^ a b "Michael Lista, On Poetry: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, by Alexandra Oliver". National Post, November 15, 2013.
- ^ "The wholesome rebel". The Province, May 6, 2007.
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