Rachel and Cade Photo Credit: Darrell Moores
ABOUT:
Born in Vancouver, Canada, Rachel Rose is a dual American/Canadian citizen whose work has appeared in various journals in Canada, the U.S., New Zealand and Japan, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Malahat Review and The Best American Poetry, as well as numerous anthologies. Her most recent book, Song & Spectacle (2012) won the Audre Lorde Poetry Award in the U.S. and the Pat Lowther Award in Canada. She was the librettist for When The Sun Comes Out, Canada's first lesbian opera, which grappled with fundamentalism, homophobia and forbidden love. Commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival, the opera premiered in Vancouver in 2013 and in Toronto in 2014 for World Pride. She is the winner of the Peterson Memorial Prize for poetry and the Bronwen Wallace award for fiction, and the recipient of a 2014 and 2016 Pushcart Prize.
Rachel Rose was awarded a fellowship at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2015 (https://iwp.uiowa.edu/residency/participants-by-year/2015%20Resident). She is the Poet Laureate of Vancouver for 2014-2017. As a writer, she is concerned with human rights, curious about both the natural and the human world, and finds joy and solace in the act of creation, particularly in collaborating with artists in different disciplines.
Rachel Rose was awarded a fellowship at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2015 (https://iwp.uiowa.edu/residency/participants-by-year/2015%20Resident). She is the Poet Laureate of Vancouver for 2014-2017. As a writer, she is concerned with human rights, curious about both the natural and the human world, and finds joy and solace in the act of creation, particularly in collaborating with artists in different disciplines.
