Sandra Alland
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Sandra Alland is a Toronto-based writer, performer, photographer, bookseller, micropress publisher, curator and activist.
Her writing has been published in many anthologies including, The State of the Arts: Culture in Toronto (Coach House Books), radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett (blewointment), Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Press), My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush (Dwarf Puppets on Parade), The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War (Three Squares Press), and Resist! (Fernwood Books). She's also been featured in zines, magazines, and journals in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Spain, Scotland, England and the U.S.
Besides being known for her text-based work, Sandra also has a reputation for innovative multimedia, performance poetry and sound poetry collaborations – recently Other Me (Scream Festival, with Alejandra Perez-Gomez and Megan Somerville), Poetry Is Not a Luxury (Mayworks, with Karen Augustine and Anna Camilleri) and Strange Attractors (Hysteria, with Michelle Ramsay and Megan Somerville).
Her micropress, sandraslittlebookshop, has published four chapbooks, including the multi-authored, multilingual Broken Telephone/teléfono roto/au téléphone. She has curated events for entities including Artscape's Queen West Art Crawl, This Ain't the Rosedale Library, and the Theatre Centre, and co-created Canada's first ever Silent Slam (a live, projected writing competition).
Sandra also works at This Ain't the Rosedale Library, writes for Xtra!, and hosts In Other Words on CKLN-FM.
Bibliography - Poetry
Blissful Times. Toronto: BookThug, 2007.
Proof of a Tongue. Toronto: McGilligan, 2004.
The Mathematics of Love. Toronto: 13the Tiger Press, 2000.
