Dionne Brand

Bio:

Dionne Brand is a poet, novelist, non-fiction writer, filmmaker, educator, and activist born Trinidad and Tobago, and based in Toronto, Canada. Her work explores themes of race, gender, sexuality, diaspora, and the moral hypocrisies of Canada, often through a feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist lens. Brand has published numerous acclaimed books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and has also edited anthologies, and created documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada. A winner of the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, she served as Toronto’s third Poet Laureate and was named to the Order of Canada in 2017. Brand is editorial director of Alchemy, an imprint of Knopf Canada, and professor emeritus at the University of Guelph.