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Funso Aiyejina |
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Funso Aiyejina was born in Ososo, Edo State,
southwestern Nigeria. He studied in Ile-Ife; Nova
Scotia; and St. Augustine, Trinidad, and taught
Literature in English for over a decade at Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He has published short
stories, poetry, and articles and reviews on African and
West Indian literature, and his radio plays have been
broadcast in Bonn, Ibadan, Lagos, and London. He now
lectures in the Department of Liberal Arts, University
of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad where he
lives with his wife and two sons. |
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Works:
The Legend of the Rockhills and
Other Stories
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Meena Alexander |
Meena Alexander has published six volumes of poetry including Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award) Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River. Her memoir Fault Lines was picked as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the year. Her volume of essays Poetics of Dislocation appears in the Michigan Poets on Poetry series. Her awards include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Arts Council of England. She is the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Literature from the South Asian Literary Association ( an organization allied to the Modern Languages Association) for contributions to American literature. www.meenaalexander.com |
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River and Bridge
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Shyamal Bagchee |
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Though balding rapidly,
Shyamal Bagchee is an unrepentant romantic. His
poetry has been published in literary journals
internationally. He attended universities in Delhi;
Santiniketan (Tagore's "poet's school"); Hamilton,
Ontario; and Toronto. Shyamal Bagchee lives and writes
in St. Albert, Alberta. He loves driving very long
distances on that province's uncrowded highways and
byways. He is a keen and serious photographer. |
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Works:
Gabardine & Other Poems
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Natasha Bakht |
Natasha Bakht is
an assistant professor of law at the University of
Ottawa. She was called to the bar of Ontario in 2003 and
served as a law clerk to Justice Louis Arbour at the
Supreme Court of Canada. Her research interests are
generally in the area of law, culture and minority
rights and specifically in the intersecting area of
religious freedom and women’s equality. Natasha has
written extensively on the issue of religious
arbitration in family law. Her probono work includes
being active as a member of the Law Program Committee
for the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF).
Natasha is also an Indian contemporary dancer and
choreographer. She is the 2008 co-recipient of the KM
Hunter Artists Award, presented to artists in Ontario
who have begun to produce a body of work and make a
significant mark in their field.
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Works:
Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada
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Salima Bhimani |
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Salima Bhimani
was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Canada. She
has a master’s degree in Islam and Globalization, and
identifies herself as a South Asian Muslim woman who is
also Canadian. She is passionate about spirituality and
art, and is active in community development in Toronto. |
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Majalis al-Ilm: sessions of
knowledge:
(Social
Commentary)
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Frank
Birbalsingh |
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Born in Guyana,
Frank Birbalsingh is a professor of English at York
University in Toronto. He is a pioneering scholar of
Indo-Caribbean studies and edited the ground-breaking
collections of studies Indenture and Exile and
Indo-Caribbean Resistance. |
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Works:
Jahaji: An Anthology of
Indo-Caribbean Fiction
(Fiction)
Novels and The Nation
(Criticism) |
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Rana Bose |
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Rana
Bose’s first novel, Recovering Rude was
published by Vehicule Press in 2000 to critical acclaim.
He has also been a well-known playwright in Canada and
has had ten of his plays published by Seagull, Prestige,
and The Canadian Theatre Review. All of these plays have
been performed in Canada, US, and India and perhaps
elsewhere. He has been an engineer, mentor, consultant,
performance poet, playwright, and resides in Montreal
and sometimes in Kolkata. He is also one of the editors
of the webzine Montreal Serai.
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Works:
The Fourth Canvas (Fiction) |
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Carmen
Cáliz-Montoro |
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Carmen Cáliz-Montoro
was born in Barcelona, Spain. She arrived in Canada in
1988 thanks to a Government of Canada Award, and
completed her PhD on poetry at the Centre for
Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She
has taught courses on Spanish and English literature and
in Women’s Studies both in Canada and in Spain, and has
done translations and published her own poetry in both
these countries as well as in the United States. |
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Works:
Writing from the Borderlands
(Criticism) |
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Lien
Chao |
Lien Chao came
from China to Canada in 1984. Her first book, Beyond
Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English, was
published in 1997 and won the Gabrielle Roy Award for
Canadian Criticism. Her work includes two volumes of
bilingual poetry (Maples and the Stream and
More Than Skin Deep), and a creative memoir (Tiger
Girl (Hu Nu)), and she is the co-editor, with Jim
Wong-Chu, of Strike the Wok: An Anthology of
Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction. She lives in
Toronto.
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Works:
Beyond Silence
(Criticism, History)
The Chinese Knot and Other Stories
(Fiction)
Maples and the Stream
(Poetry)
More Than Skin Deep
(Poetry)
Peng Ma: Chinese Brush Painting
(Art)
Strike the Wok
(Fiction)
Tiger Girl (Hu Nu)
(Creative Memoir)
Wang Dehui: Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings
(Art)
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Madeline
Coopsammy |
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Madeline Coopsammy
was born in Trinidad. She studied at Delhi University,
India, and came to Canada in 1968, settling in Winnipeg
where she attended the University of Manitoba to become
a certified teacher. Her poetry and short stories have
been published in anthologies and journals in Canada and
the United States.
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Works:
Prairie Journey
(Poetry) |
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Rienzi
Crusz |
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Rienzi Crusz was
born in Sri Lanka and came to Canada in 1965. Educated
at the Universities of Ceylon, London (England),
Toronto, and Waterloo, he is at present Reference and
Collections Librarian at the University of Waterloo. He
is widely published in magazines in Canada and the US,
and the author of ten collections of poetry.
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Works:
Gambolling with the Divine
(Poetry)
Insurgent Rain
(Poetry)
Enough to be Mortal Now (Poetry) |
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Cyril
Dabydeen |
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Cyril
Dabydeen has written poetry, short stories, and
novels, and has edited A Shapely Fire: Changing the
Literary Landscape and Another Way to Dance:
Contemporary Asian Poetry in Canada and the U.S. His
poetry and fiction have appeared in Canada, the US, the
UK, India, and the Caribbean, and been anthologized in
many places including Best Canadian Short Stories,
Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories
and the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse. He has
been recommended for a Journey Prize and a National
Magazine Award.
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Works:
Another Way to Dance
(Poetry)
Drums of My Flesh
(Fiction)
Hemisphere of Love
(Poetry)
My Brahmin Days and Other
Stories
(Fiction)
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Rocio
Davis |
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Rocio Davis was
born in Manila, Philippines and has degrees from the
Ateneode Manila University (Philippines) and the
University of Navarre (Spain). She is currently
Associate Professor of American and Postcolonial
Literature at the University of Navarre. Her main
research interests are the fiction of the Asian diaspora,
postcolonial literature, narratology, and children’s
literature. |
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Transcultural Reinventions
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Nitin Deckha |
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Nitin Deckha was born in London, England, and
raised in Toronto. His stories have appeared in
Existere, Anokhi, and at
www.sulekha.com and in collected works.
Deckha holds a PhD in Anthropology from Rice University,
Houston and teaches social sciences in Toronto. His
journalism occasionally appears in Desi Life, a
Toronto Star magazine.
Nitin Deckha's website:
www.nitindeckha.com
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Works:
Shopping for Sabzi (Fiction) |
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Raywat
Deonandan |
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Raywat Deonandan's
short stories have appeared in several countries,
including Canada, the United States, England and China.
He has won two Hart House Literary Prizes and First
Prize in the 1995 Canadian Author’s Association National
Student Short Story Contest. His book Sweet Like
Saltwater won the Guyana Prize for Best First Work.
His interests include Karate (in which he has a black
belt), biotechnology, space exploration, and ancient
history. Of Indian ancestry, Guyanese origin and
Canadian citizenship, Deonandan makes his home in both
Toronto and Washington DC. |
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Works:
Divine Elemental
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Sweet Like Saltwater
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Zulfikar
Ghose |
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Zulfikar Ghose
was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan) and spent a couple
of decades in England before moving to the United States
where he teaches at the University of Texas in Austin.
He is the author of ten novels, five books of poetry and
four books of criticism. |
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Works:
Veronica
and the Góngora Passion:
Stories, Fictions, Tales, and One Fable
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Bing
He |
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Born and raised in Beijing,
China, Bing He moved to Canada in 1992. She has
published widely in major journals and newspapers in
China and is the special correspondent for Globe
Weekly in Canada. Her poetry in English has appeared
in several journals and anthologies.
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Works:
Alphabet Zen
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Arnold
Harrichand Itwaru |
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Arnold Harrichand
Itwaru is the author of the modern classic Shanti
and eleven other books. He was born in Guyana and
resides in Toronto, Canada. A visual artist as well, he
writes compellingly on a wide range of subjects. In
Guyana he received two national awards for his poetry.
He is currently a lecturer at the University of Toronto.
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Works:
Closed Entrances (Cultural Criticism)
Home and Back
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The Invention of Canada (Criticism) |
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Shaista
Justin |
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Shaista Justin
emigrated to Canada at
the age of six and grew up in Toronto where she
currently lives with her husband and two children.
Extensive travel has contributed to her fascination
with colonization and the contemporary manifestations of
historical tragedies. Her dominant passions are writing
fiction, producing theatre, and academic research in the
fields of Post-Colonial Literature & Theory,
Eco-criticism, Feminist Theory and the 18th-Century. She
has published in The Fiddlehead & New Contrast
and works freelance as a writer and editor. |
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Works:
Winter, the Unwelcome Visitor (Poetry) |
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Farida
Karodia |
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Farida Karodia was
born and raised in South Africa. Later she moved to
Canada and now spends her time between the two
countries. She is the author of Daughters of the
Twilight, Coming Home and Other Stories, and A
Shattering of Silence. |
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Works:
Against an African Sky
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Sheema Khan |
Sheema Khan
writes a monthly column for the Globe and Mail on issues
pertaining to Islam and Muslims. She holds a PhD from
Harvard University in chemical physics, along with
numerous patents on drug delivery technology. She has
served on the Board of the Canadian Civil Liberties
Association (2004–2008), and is the founder of the
Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN)
and its former chair (2000–2005). She testified as an
expert witness on Muslims in Canada before the O’Connor
Inquiry, and has appeared before a number of
parliamentary committees. In addition, she has spoken at
numerous NGO conferences and government agencies on
issues of security, civil rights, and Muslim cultural
practice. She is currently a patent agent in Ottawa.
Click to read review from
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Works:
Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim
Woman
(Non-fiction) |
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Natasha
Ksonzek |
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Natasha Ksonzek is
an artist, writer and book cover illustrator. |
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Works:
Closed Entrances
(Cultural
Criticism) |
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Dannabang
Kuwabong |
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Dannabang Kuwabong
is a Ghanaian Canadian born in Nanville in the Upper
West Region of Ghana. He was educated in Ghana,
Scotland, and Canada and teaches Caribbean literature at
the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan. He has a
published three books: Konga and other Dagaaba
Folktales, Visions of Venom (poetry), and
Echoes from Dusty Rivers (poetry). Kuwabong’s poetry
adds a new dimension to the growing body of new voices
that is beginning to expand and redefine Canadian
literature. |
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Works:
Caribbean Blues and Love's Genealogy (Poetry) |
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Kwai-Yun
Li
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Kwai-Yun Li's
Hakka parents emigrated from Moi-yen, China to
Calcutta, India, where Kwai was born. She grew up in
Chattawalla Gully, in the old part of the city, and
came to Canada through an arranged marriage. She is
a co-author of A Kiss Beside the Monkey Bars, a
collection of short stories.
www.kwaiyunli.com |
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Works:
The Palm Leaf Fan
and Other Stories
(Fiction) |
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Ehab Lotayef
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Ehab Lotayef
was born in Cairo and moved to Montreal in 1989. He
writes in English, classical Arabic and colloquial
Egyptian Arabic. Besides writing poetry, he is also a
photographer, Juno Award-nominated songwriter, and
playwright. His play Crossing Gibraltar was produced in
2005 by CBC Radio. A fervent activist for the end of
conflict in Gaza and the Middle East, Ehab makes
frequent trips to Palestine, and recently organized the
Gaza Freedom March in Montreal. Ehab works as an
Information Engineer at McGill University. |
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Works:
To Love a Palestinian Woman
(Poetry)
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Rozena
Maart |
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Rozena
Maart was born and raised in District Six, Cape
Town, South Africa. In 1987 she was nominated for South
Africa's "Woman of the Year" award for starting the
first Black feminist organization. She moved to Canada
in 1989 and published her first book of poetry in 1990,
Talk about It! She has lectured throughout
Canada and the United States with Speak Out! Speakers
Bureau. In 1992, she won the Journey Prize for Best
Short Fiction for her short story, "No Rosa, No District
Six". Rozena Maart lives in Ontario.
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Rosa's District 6
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The Writing Circle
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Anand
Mahadevan |
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Anand Mahadevan
was born and raised in India. He came to Canada
in 1996 and has been educated in the United States,
Germany and Canada. He lives, writes and
teaches in Toronto.
www.anand-mahadevan.ca |
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Works:
The Strike
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Tariq
Malik |
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Tariq Malik was born
and raised in Pakistan. He lived for twenty years in
Kuwait, working as an industrial chemist, before
emigrating to Canada in 1995. He has continued to work
in his chosen field, having taken to heart writer Annie
Dillard's advice: "Experienced writers urge young men
and women to learn a useful trade." Rainsongs of
Kotli is his first book. He lives in Vancouver.
www.tariqmalik.net |
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Works:
Rainsongs of Kotli
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Irene Marques |
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Irene
Marques holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, a
Masters in French Literature, and Bachelor of Social
Work. She was born and raised in Portugal and emigrated
to Canada at the age of 20. Irene has published poetry,
academic articles, and short fiction in various Canadian
and international journals.
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Works:
Wearing Glasses of Water
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Muhammad
Umar Memon |
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Muhammad Umar Memon
writes fiction and criticism in Urdu and English and has
also translated widely from modern Urdu fiction, of
which he has published four volumes. He has edited
Studies in the Urdu Ghazal and Prose Fiction. |
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Works:
Domains of Fear and Desire:
Urdu Stories
(Fiction Anthology) |
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Kagiso
Lesego Molope |
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Kagiso Lesego Molope
was born in South Africa in 1976 where she also grew up,
before moving to Canada in 1997. Dancing in the Dust
is her first novel.
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Works:
Dancing in the Dust
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Michelle Muir |
Michelle Muir
is a fourth grade teacher with the Peel District School
Board as well as a professional storyteller and a poet.
She won the national title of CBC Poetry Face Off
champion in both 2006 and 2007.
Dubbed an ambassador for literacy, Michelle Muir has
performed her spoken-word poetry for audiences across
Canada and the United States. She rose to national
attention when she was named CBC Radio's Poet Laureate
in 2006. She was the CBC Radio Poetry Face Off champion
in both 2006 and 2007. Her award-winning poems, “My
Fantastic Voyage to Planet Irresistible” and “I Hope
They Ask the Things I Didn't” are included in her
collection Nuff Said (2009). |
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Works:
Nuff Said
(Poetry) |
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Arun
Mukherjee |
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Arun Prabha Mukherjee
came to Canada from India in 1971 as a Commonwealth
Scholar at the University of Toronto. An Associate
Professor of English at York University in Toronto, she
is the author of The Gospel of Wealth in the American
Novel: The Rhetoric of Dreiser and His Contemporaries
(1987), Towards an Aesthetic of Opposition: Essays on
Literature, Criticism and Cultural Imperialism
(1988), and numerous books and articles on postcolonial
literatures, women’s writing and critical theory. She
has edited an anthology of writings by women of colour
and aboriginal women entitled, Sharing Our Experience
(1993), and contributed entries on several South Asian
women writers to A Feminist Companion to Literature
in English (1990). |
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Works:
Oppositional Aesthetics
(Criticism)
Postcolonialism: My Living
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Sophia
Mustafa |
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Of South Asian origin,
Sophia Mustafa was born in India in 1922 and grew up
and went to school in Nairobi, Kenya. She was married in
1940 and moved to Tanganyika in 1948 with her husband.
She was one of the first women members of parliament in
Tanzania when she wrote The Tanganyika Way,
published by Oxford University Press in 1961. She moved
to Canada with her husband in 1989 She has three
grown-up children. |
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Works:
In the Shadow of Kirinyaga
(Fiction)
The Tanganyika Way (History) |
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Tahira
Naqvi |
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Tahira Naqvi grew up
in Lahore, Pakistan. She teaches English at Western
Connecticut State University and has taught Urdu at New
York University and Columbia, and is a writer and
prolific translator. Her short stories have appeared in
journals and have been widely anthologized. Her first
collection of stories, Attar of Roses and Other
Stories of Pakistan, was published in 1997. Among
her translation credits are the works of Sa’adat Hasan
Manto and Ismat Chugtai. She lives in New York with her
husband and three sons. |
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Works:
Dying in a Strange Country
(Fiction) |
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Rita
Nayar |
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Rita Nayar has a
university degree in psychology and a teaching
certificate from the University of Sheffield, England.
A senior corporate professional in Toronto, she is also
an artist and a poet. She has written her memoir,
Ordeal by Fire, for the thousands of men and women
who, through a twist of fate, have found themselves in
tragic and unforgiving circumstances, and are desperate
to free themselves from a hopeless and dead future.
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Works:
Ordeal by Fire:
A Memoir
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Uma Parameswaran |
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Uma Parameswaran
was born in India and now lives in Canada. Her recent
publications include award-winning What Was Always Hers
(short stories), The Forever Banyan Tree, The Sweet
Smell of Mother’s Milk-Wet Bodice (novella), Mangoes on
the Maple Tree (novel), Sisters at the Well (Poems), and
Riding High with Krishna and a Baseball Bat & Other
Stories. |
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Sasenarine
Persaud |
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Sasenarine Persaud
is the author of eight books. He received the 1996 K M
Hunter Foundation Emerging Artist Award for his fiction
and the 1999 Arthur Schomburg Award for his pioneering
of Yogic Realism and his “outstanding achievements as an
author, poet and literary theorist.” Persaud’s fiction,
essays and poetry have been published in Canada,
England, India, The Middle East, the United States, and
the West Indies.
http://poets-and-co.blogspot.com/
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Works:
Canada Geese and Apple Chatney
(Fiction)
In a Boston Night
(Poetry) |
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Leah
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Worcester-raised, Toronto-matured, Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer, and teacher. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America's only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of colour performing artists. She is a commissioned performer with Sins Invalid, the national performance organization of queer people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Her one-woman show, Grown Woman Show, has toured throughout North America. The author of Consensual Genocide, her writing has appeared in the anthologies Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don't Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World. She writes regularly for Bitch, Colorlines, Hyphen, Left Turn, and Make/Shift magazines. The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, which she co-edited with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, will be published by South End Press in March 2011. She is one of Feminist Press' 2010 "40 Feminists Under 40 Who Are Shaping the Future" and a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee.
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Works:
Consensual Genocide
(Poetry) |
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Dawn Promislow |
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Dawn Promislow
was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She
left South Africa with her family in 1977 and lived in
London, England, before returning to study English and
French literature at the University of Cape Town. She
has lived in Toronto since 1987, where she works in
magazine journalism. |
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Works:
Jewels and Other Stories
(Fiction) |
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Trish
Salah |
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Born in Halifax and
currently living in Montreal, Trish Salah is a
poet, doctoral student, education worker and union
activist. She is a member of the Stern Writing
Mistresses and her writing has appeared in various
magazines and anthologies including Blood+Aphorisms,
Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica, Borderlines, Descant, The
Diasporic Imagination, Queen Street Quarterly, Ribsauce:
a cd /anthology of words by women, Tessera, TNT:
Transsexual News Telegraph, and most recently,
Fireweed, Brazen: Transgressing Femme Identity, and
Bent on Writing. With Mirha-Soleil Ross and Bobby
Noble, she is currently co-editing Counting Past 2,
a multidisciplinary collection of transsexual and
transgender art and criticism. Wanting in Arabic
is her first book of poetry. |
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Works:
Wanting in Arabic
(Poetry) |
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Sam
Selvon |
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Sam Selvon was born
in Trinidad, where he completed his first novel, A
Brighter Sun, which brought him instant recognition.
Later he moved to UK, where he spent more than twenty
years and wrote most of his major works. He is widely
recognized as one of the major Caribbean writers to have
emerged in the post-War era and has been awarded the
Guggenheim fellowship. |
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Works:
An Island is a World
(Fiction)
Those Who Eat the Cascadura
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Olive Senior |
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Olive Senior
is one of Canada's most internationally recognized and
acclaimed writers. Among her many awards and honours she
has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and F.G. Bressani
Literary Prize, was nominated for a Governor-General’s
Literary Award, and was runner up for the Casa de Las
Americas Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. In 2003, she
received the Norman Washington Manley Foundation Award
for Excellence (preservation of cultural heritage –
Jamaica). Her body of published work includes four books
of poetry, three collections of short stories and
several award-winning non-fiction works on Caribbean
culture. |
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Works:
Arrival of the Snake-Woman (Fiction) |
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John
Stewart |
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John Stewart was
born in Trinidad and educated at California State
University, Stanford University, and the University of
California in Los Angeles. His short stories have
appeared in, among other places, The Faber Book of
Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (1990) and
Best West Indian Short Stories (London: Nelson,
1981). He is a recipient of a Royal Society of
Literature Award for Last Cool Days. Currently he
is professor and director of African American and
African Studies, University of California, Davis. |
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Works:
Last Cool Days
(Fiction)
Looking For Josephine and Other
Stories
(Fiction) |
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Fraser
Sutherland
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Fraser Sutherland
was born and raised in Nova Scotia, and is now
living in Toronto. He is a widely travelled
freelance writer, critic, editor, and lexicographer.
His work has appeared in numerous periodicals and
anthologies, including eight volumes of poetry, four
of nonfiction, and one of short fiction. His work
has been translated into Albanian, Farsi, French,
Italian, and Serbo-Croat. A member of PEN, he has a
special interest in immigrant and exiled writers.
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Works:
The Matuschka Case
(Poetry) |
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Sanjay
Talreja |
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Sanjay Talreja is a
film-maker who has been working in the visual
medium—primarily documentaries—for a number of years in
India, Canada and the US. He is also Assistant Professor
teaching documentary and media-related classes at the
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Works:
Strangers in the Mirror
(Social and Cultural Criticism) |
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H Nigel Thomas
was born in St Vincent. He attended university in
Montreal and for ten years was a teacher with the
Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. He is
now professor of literature at Laval University.
His published works include the novel Spirits in
the Dark, which was short-listed for the 1994
Quebec Writers’ Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction
Award; How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow,
short fiction; and Moving through Darkness,
poetry.
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Why We Write
(Nonfiction)
Lives: Whole and Otherwise (Fiction)
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Salimah
Valiani |
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Salimah Valiani
is a researcher in political economy and world economic
development, an activist, and a writer. She has lived
and worked in cities in Canada, England, the United
States, and South Africa. Her creative writing has
appeared in alternative newspapers and literary
journals, and has been used in community radio programs.
breathing for breadth, her first collection of poetry,
is replete with social, political and cultural
commentary. Struggles of day-to-day life, the beauty of
world cities, and protest and resistance are some of the
themes featured in her poems.
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Works:
breathing for breadth
(Poetry) |
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Yvonne
Vera |
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Vera was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Her works
Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals and Nehanda
were short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Award
Africa Region in 1993 and 1994, respectively. |
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Works:
Nehanda
(Fiction)
Why Don't You Carve Other Animals
(Fiction)
Without a Name
(Fiction) |
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Nalini
Warriar |
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Nalini
Warriar won the McAuslan First Book Award in 2002
for her collection of short stories Blues from the
Malabar Coast. She has conducted writing workshops
and writes reviews for the Montreal Gazette. She
wrote the Quebec City chapter in Write Across Canada.
Nalini was born in Kerala, India, and has lived in
Heidelberg, Germany, and Strasbourg, France. She is a
cancer researcher and a biotech consultant fluent in
German and French. She lives in Quebec City.
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Works:
Blues From The Malabar Coast (Fiction)
The Enemy Within
(Fiction) |
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Betty
Warrington-Kearsley
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Betty Warrington-Kearsley
was born in England but grew up with her Chinese
family in a kampong in Singapore. She also writes
Haiku and short stories, and is working on a memoir.
She won first prize in ARC’s 2004 Diana Brebner
Poetry Award, was co-winner in the 2004 Ray Burrell
poetry contest, and was short-listed for the 2004
Shaunt Basmajian Poetry Award. She has published in
several magazines and anthologies, including
Tracking Ground and Yawp 2005 (University of
Ottawa), The Delicate Art of Paper Passing 2006
(Carleton University), and the 58th Basho
International Festival Anthology (Japan) 2004. Betty
also writes under her pen name, Pe-Lien.
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Works:
Red Lacquered Chopsticks (Poetry) |
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Jim
Wong-Chu |
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Jim Wong-Chu is
co-editor of the critically acclaimed anthologies,
Many-Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Chinese Canadian
Writing, and Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of
Chinese Canadian Poetry. He is a founding member of
the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop.
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Works:
Strike the Wok
(Fiction) |
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Barnett
Zumoff |
| Barnett
Zumoff is Professor of Medicine in Albert Einstein
College of Medicine and in Mt. Sinai School of Medicine,
and is Emeritus Chief of Endocrinology at Beth Israel
Medical Center in New York. He is fluently bilingual in
Yiddish and English and is currently President of
the Congress for Jewish Culture, and the Forward
Association. He has published eight volumes of poetry,
in addition to individual translations published in
journals. He has a volume of translation of poetry by
Peretz Miranski in press and has completed a translation
of Emanuel Goldsmith’s “Anthology Of Yiddish Poetry In
America, 1870-2000; Volume 1.”
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Works:
Songs to a Moonstruck Lady:
Women in Yiddish Poetry
(Poetry, editor and translator) |
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