Katia Grubisic

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Katia Grubisic
Born (1978-04-25) April 25, 1978 (age 46)
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  • Writer
  • editor
  • translator

Katia Grubisic (born April 25, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, editor and translator.

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Biography

Katia Grubisic completed French and English literature degrees at the University of New Brunswick, and received her master's degree in English from Concordia University. [1]

Her collection What if red ran out (Goose Lane Editions, 2008) won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book, and was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Grubisic has also won the CV2 2-Day Poem Contest, has earned an honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards, has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards and the Descant/Winston Collins Prize, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Malahat Review , Grain and Prairie Fire , in the anthologies Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry, Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry and The Hoodoo You Do So Well, and in other Canadian and international publications. She has reviewed books for The Globe and Mail and The Montreal Review of Books, among others.

She has been guest faculty in creative writing at Bishop's University, and has taught in cegeps and for the Quebec Writers' Federation. She has acted on the editorial boards of Qwerty, The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly , and was an editor for Goose Lane Editions' Icehouse Poetry imprint and for Linda Leith Publishing. Her 2008 guest-edited Montreal issue of The New Quarterly won an honourable mention in the Best Single Issue category at the National Magazine Awards. [2] She has been editor-in-chief of Arc Poetry Magazine [3] and, from 2008 to 2012, was the coordinator of the Atwater Poetry Project reading series.

She was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Brothers, her translation of David Clerson's novel Frères, [4] at the 2021 Governor General's Awards for A Cemetery for Bees, her translation of Alina Dumitrescu's Le cimetière des abeilles, and at the 2024 Governor General's Awards for Nights Too Short to Dance, her translation of Marie-Claire Blais's Un cœur habité de mille voix. [5]

Her translation of Clerson's short-story collection Dormir sans tête, as To See Out the Night, won the 2023 Quebec Writers' Federation Cole Foundation Prize for Translation. [6]

Published works

Poetry

Essays & anthologies

Translation

Awards

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