Di Brandt

Di Brandt's poetry titles include questions i asked my mother, Jerusalem, beloved, and Now You Care. Her non-fiction titles include Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature, and Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries. She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the CAA National Poetry Prize, the McNally Robinson Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award, and has been twice short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, as well as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Award and the Griffin Prize. Di 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 a decade away, during which time she lived in Edmonton, Toronto, Windsor, and Berlin. Her latest NeWest title, 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 and currently sits on NeWest's bestseller list. It has also been shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the Manitoba Book Awards (winners announced on April 26, 2008).