Claire Harris (13 June 1937-5 February 2018 [1] ) was a Canadian poet. [2] Harris was born Port of Spain, Trinidad and lived in Calgary, Alberta. Harris' numerous works explore themes such as mortality, the role and treatment of women of color in society, and the search for identity. [3] Harris attended university in both Dublin and Jamaica, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and a post-graduate diploma. [4] She immigrated to Canada in 1966, working as a high school English teacher before publishing her first poetry book in 1984. [5] After this, Harris published six books, as well as co-authoring two more and editing another. Her work has earned her numerous awards; her 1992 collection, Drawing Down a Daughter, was nominated for a Governor General's Award. [6] In Calgary, Harris got involved working as a poetry editor for Dandelion Magazine from 1981-1989. She had also spread psychological struggles and issues with women experienced by women of Color and women in general. [7]
Jane Urquhart, LL.D is a Canadian novelist and poet. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day. Her first novel, The Whirlpool, gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. Her subsequent novels were even more successful. Away, published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller. In 1997, her fourth novel, The Underpainter, won the Governor General's Literary Award.
Daphne Marlatt, born Buckle, CM, is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Sheila Leah Fischman is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature from French to English.
Marie-Claire Blais was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts.
Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.
Olive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. Senior was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2021.
Violet Louise Archer was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, in 1913, her family changed their name to Archer in 1940. She died in Ottawa on 21 February 2000.
Barbara Godard was a Canadian critic, translator, editor, and academic. She held the Avie Bennett Historica Chair of Canadian Literature and was Professor of English, French, Social and Political Thought and Women's Studies at York University. She published widely on Canadian and Quebec cultures, on feminist and literary theory, and on translation studies. Barbara Godard died in Toronto on May 16, 2010. Across Canada and throughout the world, poets, scholars, feminists, and friends mourned her death.
Mary Dalton is a Canadian poet and educator.
Margaret Christakos is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.
Carol Lee Sanchez was a Native American poet, visual artist, essayist, and teacher.
Akasha Gloria Hull is an American poet, educator, writer, and critic whose work in African-American literature and as a Black feminist activist has helped shape Women's Studies. As one of the architects of Black Women's Studies, her scholarship and activism has increased the prestige, legitimacy, respect, and popularity of feminism and African-American studies.
Sharan Strange is an African-American poet, activist, and professor.
Murdoch Maclean Burnett was a Canadian poet, performance artist, editor, and community activist.
The Toronto Heliconian Club is a non-profit association of women involved in the arts and letters based in Toronto, Ontario. It operates out of Heliconian Hall, a historic building located in the Yorkville area of central Toronto. Founded in 1909, the Club still focuses on its original commitment to women supporting and working in the arts.
Micheline Maylor is a Canadian poet, academic, critic and editor.
Joyce Zemans is a Canadian art historian, curator, cultural policy specialist and academic. She is known as the first woman to serve as York University`s Dean of Fine Arts and as director of the Canada Council for the Arts (1988-1992).
Josephte Dufresne (1929–1995) was a Canadian pianist, teacher and conservatoire director.