Academic Background

University of Winnipeg (B.A. Hon.); University of Manitoba (M.A.); University of Victoria (Ph.D.).

Biography

Books:

The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012. 

Rue the Day. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2008.

Editor. Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2006.

Fortune. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2003.

Holding Ground. Hamilton: Seraphim Editions, 2000.

Honours:

Winner: Mayor's Poetry City Challenge, Waterloo (2012)

Nominee: Don D. Walker Award for Best Essay in Western American Studies (2009)

Nominee: Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Award, Literary Category (2010)

Winner: Bliss Carman Poetry Award (2003)

Nominee: Gerald Lampert Poetry Award (2000)

Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters:

"Night in A Box: Anne Carson's Nox."  Material Cultures. Eds. Jennifer Blair and Thomas Allen. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. (forthcoming)

"Rhetorical Metatarsals: Bone Memory in Dionne Brand's Ossuaries."  The Memory Effect. Eds. Eleanor Ty and Russell Kilbourn. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. (forthcoming)

"'Something's missing': Exploding Girlhood and Narrative in The Tracey Fragments." Double-Takes: Proceedings of Canadian Literature Symposium on Canadian Literature into Film. Ed. David Jarraway. University of Ottawa Press, 2013. (forthcoming)  

"Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic and Subtext in Terrance Odette's Heater." Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context.  Ed. Susan Knabe and Wendy Pearson. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. (forthcoming)

"Voice of the Gutter: Comics in the Classroom." From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom. Ed. Paul Budra and Clint Burnham. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2012. 43-68. 

"Terry Fox and the National Imaginary: Reading Eric Walters's Run." Studies in Canadian Literature 36.1 (2011):1-16.

"'Out By Sixteen': Queer(ed) Girls in Ginger Snaps." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3.1 (2011). 

"Hunger, History, and the Shape of Awkward Questions: Reading Sarah Klassen's Simone Weil as Mennonite Text." Journal of Mennonite Studies 28 (2010): 87-102. 

"'Citizens of a human body of kind': Gender and Space in Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies and Other Poems." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 65 (2010): 22-42.

"Sitting Down to Ceremony: The Poetry of Gregory Scofield." Across Cultures/Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2010. 289-296.

"Everybody Knows That Song: The Necessary Trouble of Teaching Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water."  Canadian Literature 201 (2009): 35-51.

"Gateway Politics: West meets west in Kristjana Gunnars' Zero Hour." The Last Best West: An Exploration of Myth, Identity and Quality of Life in the Canadian West.  Ed. Anne Gagnon et al. Vancouver: New Star, 2009. 25-40. 

"'Absence, havoc': Gothic Mourning and Daughterly Duty in Jay Macpherson's Welcoming Disaster."  Studies in Canadian Literature 34.1 (2009): 58-80.

"The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Father-Daughter Kinship in Anne Carson's 'The Anthropology of Water.'" Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 67-83.

"'The Battle Done': Reading the Military Father in the Poems of P.K. Page." Canadian Poetry 53 (2003): 71-86.

"'Dead Girl-Bag': The Janet Smith Case as Contaminant in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Café." Studies in Canadian Literature 27.1 (2002):32-46.

"Regarding the Male Body: Rhapsodic Contradiction in Lorna Crozier's 'Penis Poems.'" English Studies in Canada 28:2 (2002): 247-268.

Interviews: "Reparative Strategies: An Interview with Di Brandt." Arc (Winter 2006): 36-48.

Recent Creative Publications:

"Torchy Comes Out with it." I Found It At the Movies: an anthology of poems about film. Ed. Ruth Roach Pierson. Toronto: Guernica, 2013. (Forthcoming).

"Sestina: Whiskey Canyon." Planet Earth Poetry. Ed. Yvonne Blomer. Vancouver: Leaf Press, 2013. (Forthcoming)

"Argument, August." The New Quarterly (2013). (Forthcoming.)

"Grande Dame," (poem) Prairie Fire (forthcoming)

"This is Not A Love Poem," "Medea on Social Media," "Insomnia." (poems) The Weary Blues 2 (2012). 

"Dinner with Norman Bethune, 2010." (poem) Grain (Fall 2012).

"Grand River Canoe Trip with Pauline Johnson, 1889." Kitchener Record, May 26, 2012: E3.

"Negative Capability." Arc (Winter 2012).

"Sestina: Whiskey Canyon." (poem) The New Quarterly 119 (2011): 12-13. 

"The Boyfriends." (prose poem) Geist 20.80 (2011):18.

"Executrix." (poem) Contemporary Verse 2 33.4 (2011): 42.

"The Accent" (poem) and "Poetry Lessons, or How Feminists Make it Happen" (essay). Contemporary Verse 2 33.2 (2010): 22-25.

"Nocturne for a Colicky Infant." The New Quarterly 116 (2010): 19.

"Little Vortices and the Life List: The Maelstrom of Matter." (essay) Influency Salon 2. May 2010. www.influencysalon.ca

"Reading the Wreck," "For Ann," and "North of Superior." (three poems) Contemporary Verse 2 32.1 (2009): 31-34.

"Figure and Ground: An Ecopoetic Travelogue." (essay) Contemporary Verse 2 32.1 (2009): 24-30.

"Thirty Helens." (poem) Arc 60 (2008): 74-75. 

"Blazon: A Fugue on Poetry and the Body." (essay) Contemporary Verse 2 30.3 (2008): 25-27.

"Welcome to Waterloo County: Watermelon Syrup, Post-Peasant History, and the Family Story."  (essay) The New Quarterly 105 (2007): 145-149.

"Renovation Suite" and "Promise to the House." (two poems) The New Quarterly 104 (2007).

Recent Reviews:

North End Love Songs by Katherena Vermette. Prairie Fire Review of Books (2013).

Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle by J.A. Wainwright. Canadian Literature 209 (2011): 187-188.

Walking to Mojacar by Di Brandt. Prairie Fire Review of Books 11.1 (2011): 1-3.

The Reinvention of the Human Hand by Paul Vermeersch. Malahat Review 172 (2010): 73-74.

Spoken among Trees by Jeff Gundy. Journal of Mennonite Studies 28 (2010): 247-248.

Joy is So Exhausting by Susan Holbrook. Arc 64 (2010): 103-104.

Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert. Canadian Literature 203 (2009): 149-150. 

So this is the world and here I am in it by Di Brandt. Great Plains Quarterly 29.1 (2009): 81-82.

Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn. Malahat Review 165 (2009): 128-130. 

Up on the Roof and The Filled Pen by P.K. Page. Malahat Review 161 (2007): 99-102.

A Curious Beatitude by Sarah Klassen. Journal of Mennonite Studies 25 (2007): 231-232.