Sina Queyras is a Canadian writer.[1] To date, they have published seven collections of poetry, a novel and an essay collection.
Personal life
Sina Queyras was born in Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, Manitoba, Canada. Their growing up took place on the road on Anishinabe, Ininew, Oji-Cree, Dene, Dakota, Kootenai, Kitsumkalum, Kitselas and the Ts’msyen (Tsimshian) territories in Winnipeg, Kaslo, and Terrace, Western Canada.[2] Queyras also studied and lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, and Calgary where they were Markin Flanagan Writer in Residence.
Life and career
In 2005, while living in New York, they edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press.[3][4] They later edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for Drunken Boat, where they are a contributing editor.[5] From 2005 to 2007 Queyras co-curated the belladonna* reading series in New York.[2]
Their third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award[6] and a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry,[1] and their fourth, Expressway, was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2009 Governor General's Awards.[7] A selection from Expressway won Gold prize in the National Magazine Awards.[5]
They published their first novel, Autobiography of Childhood, in 2011.[8] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the amazon.ca First Novel Award.[9]
Su colección de poesía de 2014, MxT, fue nuevamente preseleccionada para el Premio Literario Lambda de Poesía Lésbica, [ 10 ] y ganó el Premio AM Klein de Poesía de los Premios de la Federación de Escritores de Quebec [ 11 ] y el Premio ReLit de Poesía. [ 12 ] Una traducción de Marie Frankland fue preseleccionada para el Premio del Gobernador General de traducción del inglés al francés en los Premios del Gobernador General de 2015. [ 13 ]
Su obra ha sido ampliamente publicada en revistas y antologías, incluyendo Joyland: A hub for short fiction . Imparten escritura creativa en la Universidad Concordia de Montreal , [ 14 ] donde residen, y han impartido clases en Haverford College [ 15 ] y en la Universidad de Rutgers . [ 1 ] Queyras también organiza Writers Read , donde ha recibido a escritores como Lydia Davis , Rae Armantrout , Tanya Tagaq , Renee Gladman , Claudia Rankine y Dionne Brand . [ 2 ]
Obras
Memoria
- Habitaciones: Mujeres, Escritura, Woolf (2022)
Novedoso
- Autobiografía de la infancia (2011) [ 8 ]
Ensayos
- Desatado (2010)
Poesía
Antologías
- Campo abierto: 30 poetas canadienses contemporáneos (2005) [ 3 ]
Obras de teatro
- La excursión (1996) [ 21 ]
Véase también
Referencias
- 1 2 3 "De investigador privado a poeta, el autor tiene un currículum muy variado; la docencia encabeza la lista para el nuevo escritor residente". Calgary Herald , 9 de septiembre de 2007.
- 123"About". Sina Queyras. 2010-10-06. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- 12"Canadian poets storm America". The Globe and Mail, July 30, 2005.
- ↑Queyras, Sina (2005). Open field: 30 contemporary Canadian poets. New York: Persea Books. ISBN 0-89255-314-6. OCLC 57514971.
- 12"Sina Queyras". Poetry Foundation. 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- ↑"Calder beat out for top poetry prizes". Winnipeg Free Press, June 23, 2008.
- ↑"Literary finalists announced". Sherbrooke Record, October 16, 2009.
- 12"Twenty-four hours before death". The Globe and Mail, November 19, 2011.
- ↑"Toronto writer wins first-novel prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, April 29, 2012.
- ↑"LGBT lit stars John Waters, Rita Mae Brown lauded at The Lammys". Metro US. 2015-06-02. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
- ↑"Sean Michaels emerges as a double QWF finalist; Two other writers pull off the coup of being named to the list twice". Montreal Gazette, October 15, 2014.
- ↑"Awards: Megan Gail Coles, Andrew Kaufman, Sina Queyras win ReLit Awards". Quill & Quire, February 1, 2016.
- ↑"Full list of 2015 Nominees for the governor general's literary awards". Montreal Gazette, October 7, 2015.
- ↑"City's young writers thriving; Montreal boasts an award-winning cohort of anglo authors who are here to stay". Montreal Gazette, May 9, 2015.
- 12"Creative writing and sexuality themes explored". Kelowna Capital News, November 11, 2008.
- ↑"Sharp teeth, lyrical talons; Human nature, more savage than nature can be; plus a reflective take on love, loss and cruelty". Toronto Star, October 10, 2004.
- ↑"The avantest of the avant-garde". The Globe and Mail, April 8, 2006.
- ↑"Poet returns with sights on car culture; Calgary's fixation on automobile 'made me weep'". Calgary Herald, February 24, 2009.
- ↑"Finding a grief formula; Elegy uses mathematics, circuit diagrams to plot way through loss". Vancouver Sun, March 1, 2014.
- ↑"From touchstone to metaphor: New poetry from Sina Queyras and Arleen Paré investigates a trio of female artists and how they cast their lives into uncompromising shapes". The Globe and Mail, November 11, 2017.
- ↑"Play rings of truth with taut direction". Toronto Star, August 20, 1996.
External links
- Official website
- Lemon HoundArchived 2012-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Living people
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- Academic staff of Concordia University
- Canadian lesbian writers
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian women novelists
- Canadian LGBTQ poets
- Canadian LGBTQ novelists
- Canadian LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights
- Lesbian dramatists and playwrights
- Lesbian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- Poets from Quebec
- Poets from Manitoba
- Novelists from Quebec
- 21st-century Canadian women poets