Alison Calder

Alison Calder’s poetry collection, Wolf Tree (Coteau 2007), won two Manitoba Book Awards and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Her creative and scholarly writing has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry. Her collaboration with Jeanette Lynes led to the chapbook Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems (Jackpine Press 2007). She’s taught creative writing in Germany and China, and been invited to read her work in France and the United States. Her scholarly writing focuses on Western Canadian literature and culture: she is the editor of Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn (Wilfred Laurier University Press 2006); of a critical edition of Frederick Philip Grove’s 1925 novel Settlers of the Marsh; and is co-editor of the influential anthology History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies (University of Manitoba Press 2005).

Alison lives in Winnipeg, where she teaches Canadian literature and creative writing in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba.

Instructor's webpage: University of Manitoba