Dionne Brand is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
Christina Sharpe is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University and author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being , also published by Duke University Press..
She lives in Toronto.
In 2021 Brand was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction.
From 2009 to 2012 Brand served as Toronto\'s Poet Laureate.
Her works of nonfiction include Bread Out of Stone and A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging .
Brand\'s novel, Theory , won the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award, and What We All Long For won the Toronto Book Award.
Her other poetry collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General\'s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
Her latest poetry collection, The Blue Clerk , also published by Duke University Press, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Award.
Dionne Brand is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction
