Alison Calder

Alison Calder

Alison Calder is a Canadian poet and educator. She was born in England, grew up in Saskatoon, and lives now in Winnipeg, where she teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba. In addition to scholarly material, she has published a chapbook, "Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems", in collaboration with Jeanette Lynes, and one poetry collection, "Wolf Tree" (Coteau), which won the 2008 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author at the . Alison Calder is married to writer Warren Cariou.

References

* [http://www.coteaubooks.com/authorpages/calder.html Coteau Books Profile]
* [http://www.thinairwinnipeg.ca/writers/alison-calder Winnipeg International Writers Festival Biography]


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