Word Ballast With Guest Rishma Dunlop

Join Billy Burgos as he talks Rishma Dunlop bout her book of poetry

Bio

Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and translator. She is the author of five books of poetry: Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems, White Album, Metropolis, Reading Like a Girl, and The Body of My Garden. Publications as editor include: Art, Literature, and Place: An Ecopoetics Reader, White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood, and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets. Her translations of Cuban poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela appear in The Exile Book of Translations: 20 Canadian Poets Take on the World. Winner of the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, she has also been a finalist for the Chapters-Robertson Davies Prize for Fiction, the CBC Prizes in Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction, and the Gloria Vanderbilt-Carter V. Cooper Prize for Fiction. Her honours include the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing and she was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Arts and Humanities. She has also received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. She is currently Principal Investigator on a SSHRC funded research project, “Poetry of Witness as Public Pedagogy and Transitional Justice.” Rishma Dunlop is acclaimed for her creative and scholarly work that merges artistic production with research, and she is a dynamic and renowned keynote speaker who has spoken globally on creativity, arts education, human rights and literary studies.She is a professor of Education and English and was Director of the Creative Writing Program atYork University from 2007-2011.