Di Brandt has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the CAA National Poetry Prize, the McNally Robinson Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award, and has twice been short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, as well as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Award and the Griffin Prize. Brandt holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University, Manitoba, and is delighted to be back in Manitoba, her beloved home landscape, after spending ten years in Edmonton, Toronto, Windsor, and Berlin.

Brandt's books of poetry include questions i asked my mother, Jerusalem, beloved, and Now You Care. She has also published non-fiction titles, including Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature, and Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

Her collection of creative essays, So this is the world & here I am in it, was released in March 2008; it is the tenth book in the Writer as Critic series, edited by Smaro Kamboureli, and was shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the Manitoba Book Awards. Her latest work is a novel entitled Watermelon Syrup, co-written with Annie Jacobsen and Jane Finlay-Young.