Sina Queyras

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Sina Queyras is a Canadian writer.[1] To date they have published seven collections of poetry, a novel and an essay collection.

Life and career

In 2005 they edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press.[2] They later edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for Drunken Boat, where they are a contributing editor. From 2005 to 2007 Queyras co-curated the belladonna* reading series in New York.

Their third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award[3] and a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry,[1] and their fourth, Expressway, was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2009 Governor General's Awards.[4]

They published their first novel, Autobiography of Childhood, in 2011.[5] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the amazon.ca First Novel Award.[6]

Their 2014 poetry collection MxT was again shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry,[7] and won the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards[8] and the ReLit Award for Poetry.[9] A translation by Marie Frankland was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation at the 2015 Governor General's Awards.[10]

Their work has been published widely in journals and anthologies including Joyland: A hub for short fiction. They teach creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal,[11] and have taught at Haverford College[12] and Rutgers University.[1]

Works

Novel

  • Autobiography of Childhood (2011)[5]

Essays

  • Unleashed (2010)

Poetry

  • Someone from the Hollow (1995)
  • Slip (2001)[12]
  • Teethmarks (2004)[13]
  • Lemon Hound (2006)[14]
  • Expressway (2009)[15]
  • MxT (2014)[16]
  • My Ariel (2017)[17]

Anthologies

  • Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (2005)[2]

Plays

  • The Outing (1996)[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "From P.I. to poet, author has one varied resume; Teaching tops list for new writer-in-residence". Calgary Herald, September 9, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Canadian poets storm America". The Globe and Mail, July 30, 2005.
  3. ^ "Calder beat out for top poetry prizes". Winnipeg Free Press, June 23, 2008.
  4. ^ "Literary finalists announced". Sherbrooke Record, October 16, 2009.
  5. ^ a b "Twenty-four hours before death". The Globe and Mail, November 19, 2011.
  6. ^ "Toronto writer wins first-novel prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, April 29, 2012.
  7. ^ "LGBT lit stars John Waters, Rita Mae Brown lauded at The Lammys". Metro, June 2, 2015.
  8. ^ "Sean Michaels emerges as a double QWF finalist; Two other writers pull off the coup of being named to the list twice". Montreal Gazette, October 15, 2014.
  9. ^ "Awards: Megan Gail Coles, Andrew Kaufman, Sina Queyras win ReLit Awards". Quill & Quire, February 1, 2016.
  10. ^ "Full list of 2015 Nominees for the governor general's literary awards". Montreal Gazette, October 7, 2015.
  11. ^ "City's young writers thriving; Montreal boasts an award-winning cohort of anglo authors who are here to stay". Montreal Gazette, May 9, 2015.
  12. ^ a b "Creative writing and sexuality themes explored". Kelowna Capital News, November 11, 2008.
  13. ^ "Sharp teeth, lyrical talons; Human nature, more savage than nature can be; plus a reflective take on love, loss and cruelty". Toronto Star, October 10, 2004.
  14. ^ "The avantest of the avant-garde". The Globe and Mail, April 8, 2006.
  15. ^ "Poet returns with sights on car culture; Calgary's fixation on automobile 'made me weep'". Calgary Herald, February 24, 2009.
  16. ^ "Finding a grief formula; Elegy uses mathematics, circuit diagrams to plot way through loss". Vancouver Sun, March 1, 2014.
  17. ^ "From touchstone to metaphor: New poetry from Sina Queyras and Arleen Paré investigates a trio of female artists and how they cast their lives into uncompromising shapes". The Globe and Mail, November 11, 2017.
  18. ^ "Play rings of truth with taut direction". Toronto Star, August 20, 1996.

External links

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