Rishma Dunlop is a Canadian poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator. Her new book, Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems, will be published in fall 2011 by Mansfield Press. Her previous books of poetry include: White Album, Metropolis, Reading Like a Girl, and The Body of My Garden. Her writing has appeared in international anthologies and journals, and she is editor of White Ink (2007) and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (2004). Dunlop was the winner of the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, and has been a finalist for the Chapter-Robertson Davies Prize for Fiction and the CBC Literary Prizes in Poetry and Non-Fiction. She was the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing in 2009-2010 and in 2011, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Arts and Humanities. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at York University, Toronto. She is founding editor of the international poetry journal Studio.

 

 

 

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