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Funso Aiyejina |
Works:
The Legend of the Rockhills and Other
Stories (Fiction) |
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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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Meena Alexander |
Works:
River and Bridge
(Poetry) |
Meena
Alexander was born in India and
raised there and in North Africa. She now lives in New York
City, where she is professor of English and Creative Writing
at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University
of New York. Her work has appeared widely in journals
in the United States, Canada, England and India and has also
been translated into several languages, including Italian
and German. She has published several volumes of poetry,
including Night Scene, The Garden,
which was produced Off-Broadway in 1988. Her novel
Nampally Road
was a VLS Editor's Choice and her memoir Fault Lines
was published in 1993. In 1993 she was a MacDowell Fellow.
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Nurjehan Aziz
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Works:
Floating the Borders
(Criticism)
Her Mother's Ashes
(Fiction)
Her Mother's Ashes 2
(Fiction)
Her Mother's Ashes 3 (Fiction) |
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Nurjehan Aziz was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, studied in
Iran and the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1980. She is a
cofounder of
The Toronto South Asian Review, now The Toronto Review,
of which she is an editorial board member. She is the publisher at TSAR
Publications.
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Shyamal Bagchee |
Works:
Gabardine & Other Poems
(Poetry) |
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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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Anurima Banerji |
Works:
Night
Artillery
(Poetry) |
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Natasha Bakht |
Works:
Belonging
and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada
(Essays) |
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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Salima Bhimani
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Works:
Majalis al-Ilm: sessions of knowledge:
(Social Commentary) |
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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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Frank Birbalsingh
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Works:
Jahaji: An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction
(Fiction)
Novels and The Nation (Criticism) |
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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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Rana Bose |
Works:
The Fourth
Canvas
(Fiction) |
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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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Carmen Cáliz-Montoro
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Works:
Writing from the Borderlands
(Criticism) |
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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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Lien Chao
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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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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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Jennifer Cook
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Works:
Flight Across the Mekong (YA
Fiction) |
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Jennifer
Cook was born and educated in England and immigrated to Canada in
1967. She has lived and worked in many different countries. She now
lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
www.jennifercook.ca
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Madeline
Coopsammy
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Works:
Prairie Journey (Poetry) |
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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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Rienzi Crusz
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Works:
Gambolling with the Divine (Poetry)
Insurgent Rain
(Poetry)
Enough to be Mortal Now
(Poetry) |
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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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Cyril Dabydeen |
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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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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Rocio Davis
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Works:
Transcultural Reinventions
(Criticism)
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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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Nitin Deckha |
Works:
Shopping for
Sabzi (Fiction) |
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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.
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Raywat Deonandan |
Works:
Divine Elemental (Fiction)
Sweet Like Saltwater (Fiction) |
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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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Zulfikar Ghose
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Works:
Veronica and the Góngora
Passion: Stories, Fictions,
Tales, and
One Fable
(Fiction) |
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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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Bing
He
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Works:
Alphabet Zen (Poetry) |
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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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Arnold Harrichand
Itwaru
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Works:
Closed Entrances
(Cultural Criticism)
Home and Back (Fiction)
The Invention of Canada(Criticism) |
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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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Shaista Justin |
- Works:
Winter,
the Unwelcome Visitor (Poetry)
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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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Chelva
Kanaganayakam
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- Works:
Configurations of Exile (Interviews)
Dark Antonyms and Paradise
(Criticism)
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History and Imagination
(Essays)
Lutesong and Lament
(Fiction)
Moveable Margins
(Criticism)
Wilting Laughter (Translation/Poetry)
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Chelva Kanaganayakam
is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and a scholar of
postcolonial literature.
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Farida Karodia
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Works:
Against an African Sky (Fiction) |
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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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Sheema Khan
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Works:
Of Hockey
and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman
(Non-fiction) |
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.
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Natasha Ksonzek
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Works:
Closed Entrances (Cultural Criticism) |
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Natasha Ksonzek is
an artist, writer and book cover illustrator.
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Dannabang Kuwabong |
Works:
Caribbean
Blues and Love's Genealogy (Poetry) |
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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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Kwai-Yun Li
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Works:
The Palm Leaf Fan
and Other Stories
(Fiction) |
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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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Rozena Maart |
Works:
Rosa's District 6 (Fiction)
The Writing Circle
(Fiction) |
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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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Anand Mahadevan
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Works:
The Strike (Fiction) |
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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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Tariq Malik
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Works:
Rainsongs of Kotli (Fiction) |
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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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Irene Marques |
Works:
Wearing Glasses of Water (Poetry) |
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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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Muhammad Umar
Memon
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Works:
Domains of Fear and Desire: Urdu
Stories
(Fiction Anthology)
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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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Kagiso Lesego
Molope
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Works:
Dancing in the Dust (Fiction) |
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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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Michelle Muir |
Works:
Nuff Said (Poetry) |
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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Arun Mukherjee
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Works:
Oppositional Aesthetics (Criticism)
Postcolonialism: My Living (Criticism) |
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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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Sophia Mustafa
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Works:
In the Shadow of Kirinyaga
(Fiction)
The Tanganyika Way (History) |
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Sophia Mustafa (1922-2005) was born in India in 1922.
She grew up and went to
school in Nairobi, Kenya. Married in 1940, she 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 children.
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Tahira Naqvi
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Works:
Dying in a Strange Country
(Fiction) |
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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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Rita Nayar
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Works:
Ordeal by Fire: A Memoir (Memoir) |
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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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Sasenarine
Persaud
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Works:
Canada Geese and Apple Chatney
(Fiction)
In a Boston Night (Poetry)
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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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Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Works:
Consensual Genocide
(Poetry)
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
is a U.S.-raised, Toronto-based queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word
artist and teacher. Her writing has been published in the anthologies
Colonize This!, Dangerous Families, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write
Porn, the Lambda Award-nominated Brazen Femme, Without a Net, Geeks,
Misfits and Outlaws and A Girl's Guide To Taking Over the World. A
frequent contributor to Colorlines and Bitch magazines, she has
performed her work throughout the United States and Canada.
www.brownstargirl.com
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Trish Salah |
Works:
Wanting in Arabic (Poetry) |
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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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Sam Selvon
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Works:
An Island is a World (Fiction)
Those Who Eat the Cascadura
(Fiction)
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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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Olive Senior
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Works:
Arrival of the Snake-Woman
(Fiction)
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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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John Stewart
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Works:
Last Cool Days (Fiction)
Looking For Josephine and Other Stories
(Fiction)
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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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Fraser
Sutherland
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Works:
The Matuschka Case (Poetry) |
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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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Sanjay Talreja
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Works:
Strangers in the Mirror (Social and Cultural Criticism) |
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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 University of Windsor.
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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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Salimah Valiani |
Works:
breathing for breadth (Poetry) |
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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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Yvonne Vera
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Works:
Nehanda (Fiction)
Why Don't You Carve Other Animals
(Fiction)
Without a Name (Fiction)
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Yvonne
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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Nalini Warriar |
Works:
Blues From The Malabar Coast (Fiction)
The Enemy Within (Fiction) |
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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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Betty
Warrington-Kearsley
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Works:
Red Lacquered Chopsticks (Poetry) |
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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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Jim Wong-Chu
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Works:
Strike the Wok (Fiction) |
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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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Barnett Zumoff |
Works:
Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in
Yiddish Poetry (Poetry,
editor and translator) |
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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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