Rachel Rose
| Rachel Rose | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
September 20, 1970 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Canadian/American |
| Genre | poetry, essay, fiction |
| Notable works | Notes on Arrival and Departure |
Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, Notes on Arrival and Departure, and Song and Spectacle. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
In 2011, Rachel and composer Leslie Uyeda were commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver to write the libretto for Canada’s first lesbian opera, When The Sun Comes Out, which premiered in August 2013 in Vancouver and in Toronto in June 2014.[1]
In 2014, Rachel was named Vancouver's Poet Laureate, for a term running through to 2017.[1]
Personal life
She grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), and in Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle.[2] In the mid-1990s, Rachel lived and worked in Japan for a year. She has worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher, and as the poetry mentor in The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University.[2] In 2015 she was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.[3]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Giving My Body to Science (1999) McGill-Queen's University Press
- Notes on Arrival and Departure (2005) McClelland & Stewart
- Song and Spectacle (2012) Harbour Publishing
Essays
- Creating Benjamin, Prairie Fire, Volume 22, No. 4, (Winter 2001)
- Letters to a Young Mother Who Writes (in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, edited by Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam and Cathy Stonehouse, 2008, McGill/Queens University Press)
- A Tale of Two Mommies (in Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood, edited by Cori Howard, 2009, Key Porter Books)
Short stories
- Sundays (in Hot & Bothered, edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky, 1998, Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Want, This Magazine, May/June 1999
- The Glass Eye, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol 24, No. 3&4 (Fall and Winter 2007)
Anthologies
- Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association (1998) Ten Speed Press
- In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005) Polestar
- White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007) York University
- Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv (2008) Red Hen Press
- Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (2009) Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Operas
- When The Sun Comes Out (2013)
Awards and prizes
- 1997 - winner, Bronwen Wallace Award for fiction
- 2000 - finalist, Pat Lowther Memorial Award for poetry
- 2000 - finalist, Gerald Lampert Award for poetry
- 2000 - finalist, Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal for poetry
- 2000 - winner, Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Award (Giving My Body to Science)
- 2013 - winner, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (Song and Spectacle)[4]
- 2013 - winner, Pat Lowther Memorial Award for poetry[5]
References
- 1 2 City of Vancouver webpage
- 1 2 Email from Rose, dated August 28, 2010
- ↑ Micro-interview with Rachel Rose, The Writing University, University of Iowa, http://www.writinguniversity.org/blog/micro-interview-with-rachel-rose
- ↑ "Going for the Silver". Gay City News, May 8, 2013.
- ↑ Rachel Rose Wins the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
External links
- Rachel Rose personal web site
- Official site of Vancouver's Poet Laureate
- Rachel Rose by Aily Nash Bomb