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Sina Queyras

Sina grew up in her mother's Chrysler, traveling the roads of western Canada. She has lived on Vancouver Island, and in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, New Jersey, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Awardand a Lambda Literary Award. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press. She edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for Drunken Boat where she is a contributing editor. From 2005-2007 Queyras co-curated the belladonna* reading series in New York.

Sina's work has been published widely in journals and anthologies. She has taught creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Haverford College, and Rutgers University. [1]

Sina Queyras was the 2007 - 2008 Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence [2]. Sina's blog, Lemon Hound, can be found at http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/


Poetry

Slip (2001) [3]

Teethmarks (2004) [4]

Lemon Hound (2006) [5]


Books (edited)

Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (2005)[6]


External Links

Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program Official Website

Lemon Hound