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.
Rachel Rose | |
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| Born | September 20, 1970 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Canadian/American |
| Genre | Poetry, essay, fiction |
| Notable works | Notes on Arrival and Departure |
In 2011, Rose 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]
Rose was Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2017.[1]
Rose's short story collection The Octopus has Three Hearts was nominated for the 2021 Giller Prize.
Personal life
editRose grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle.[2] In the mid-1990s, she 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 a resident in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.[3]
Bibliography
editPoetry
edit- 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
- Marry & Burn (2015), Harbour Publishing
Essays
edit- "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
edit- "Sundays" (in Hot & Bothered, edited by Aren 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
edit- 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
edit- When The Sun Comes Out (2013)
Books
edit- The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World's K-9 Cops (2017), St Martin's Press
- The Octopus has Three Hearts (2021), Douglas & McIntyre
Awards and prizes
edit| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 1997 | Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction | Winner | [4] | |
| 2000 | Giving My Body to Science | Pat Lowther Memorial Award | Finalist | [5] |
| 2000 | Giving My Body to Science | Gerald Lampert Award | Finalist | [5] |
| 2000 | Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal | Finalist | ||
| 2000 | Giving My Body to Science | Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Award | Winner | [6] |
| 2013 | Song and Spectacle | Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry | Winner | [7] |
| 2013 | Song and Spectacle | Pat Lowther Memorial Award | Winner | [8] |
| 2016 | Marry & Burn | Pat Lowther Memorial Award | Finalist | |
| 2016 | Marry & Burn | Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry | Finalist | |
| 2021 | The Octopus Has Three Hearts | Giller Prize | Longlist | [9] |
References
edit- ^ a b "City of Vancouver webpage". Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
- ^ a b 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 Archived 2015-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Quebec writer wins development award: Prize honours poet Bronwen Wallace". Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 1997.
- ^ a b "The lists are in: Prizes, prizes and more prizes". Vancouver Sun, April 8, 2000.
- ^ "Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards: Distinct-society analysis gets two English-language book prizes". Montreal Gazette, December 1, 2000.
- ^ Bookey, Seth J. (2013-05-08). "Going for the Silver – Gay City News". Gay City News. Archived from the original on 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ Rachel Rose Wins the Pat Lowther Memorial Award Archived 2019-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Miriam Toews, Omar El Akkad & Katherena Vermette among 12 authors longlisted for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books. 2021-10-01. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 2023-03-14.