Laurie Brinklow

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Laurie Brinklow is a Canadian academic, poet, and author. [1] [2] She is an assistant professor of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. [3] [4] She is the president of the International Small Islands Studies Association. [5] She is the Co-ordinator of the Institute of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. [6] [7]

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Early life and education

Brinklow has a Bachelor of Arts from University of Victoria. [8] She has a bachelor of education equivalent from University of British Columbia. [8]

Brinklow graduated from the Master of Arts in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island in 2007. [9] She completed her PhD at the University of Tasmania in Geography and Environmental Studies. [9]

Career

From 1990 to 2004, Brinklow was the Publishing Coordinator at the Institute of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. [9] In 1993, she founded Acorn Press. [10] From 1994 to 1998, she coordinated the North Atlantic Islands Programme (later became the North Atlantic Forum). [9]

Brinklow sold her publishing company, Acorn Press, in 2010 to pursue her PhD at the University of Tasmania. [11] Her book of poetry, Here for the Music, was published in 2012. [12] [13]

In 2015, Laurie was the chair of the Building Community Resilience Conference for the 10th North Atlantic Forum in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. [9] She was in the steering committee of Building Small Island Resilience to Global Climate Change in 2016. [9] She recorded a song for a charity album, 12 Songs of Christmas, which raised CAD$8,000 for the local foodbank. [14] She received the Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Sessional Instructor in 2018. [9] She spoke on Selling Cold Islands module at the University of the Highlands and Islands for the Island Studies program in 2018. [15] She received CAD$5,000 in funding from the Prince Edward Island provincial government to conduct a survey on the reasons islanders where leaving the province as part of the government strategy to increase the population of the island. [16]

Brinklow is the president of the International Small Islands Studies Association. [9] She is the honorary counsel of Iceland in Prince Edward Island. [9] In 2022, she won the Prince Edward Island Book Award for Poetry for My island’s the house I sleep in at night. [9] She and Dr. Carla DiGiorgio won the SSHRC Exchange Publication Awards. [17] She is a board member of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. [10] She is an editor for Nimbus Publishing. [18] She is a member of the social committee of the UPEI faculty association. [19]

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