Roberta Rees

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Roberta Rees
Born
Roberta Rees

1954
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Writer, Poet

Roberta Rees (born 1954 in New Westminster, British Columbia) [1] is a Canadian writer from Alberta. [2]

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Career

Rees was raised primarily in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, and has been based in Calgary, Alberta since moving there at age 19 to attend the University of Calgary. [1] She has also taught English and creative writing at the high school and university levels.

To date, she is most noted for her short story collection Long After Fathers, which won the ReLit Award for short fiction, and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, in 2008. [3]

Awards

In 1993, she won the Gerald Lampert Award and the Alberta Literary Awards' Stephan G. Stephansson prize for poetry for her poetry collection Eyes Like Pigeons, [4] and her novel Beneath the Faceless Mountain won the Alberta New Fiction Competition for unpublished manuscripts in 1993. [5] Following the publication of Beneath the Faceless Mountain in 1994, the book was co-winner, with Richard Wagamese's Keeper 'n Me, of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel at the 1995 Writers' Guild of Alberta's Alberta Literary Awards. [6] Her collection of short fiction Long After Fathers won the Howard O'Hagan Award at the Alberta Literary Awards in 2008.

Rees has twice won the James H. Gray Award for short nonfiction, an Alberta Literary Award, in 2018 for "Evie's Massage Parlour" (Writing Menopause, Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2017) and again in 2019 for "Bones, Honey" (Waiting: An Anthology of Essays, The University of Alberta Press, 2018).

Bibliography

Poetry

Fiction

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References

  1. 1 2 "Author finds voice in elements". Calgary Herald , November 4, 1994.
  2. "Roberta Rees gets into writing's rhythm". Calgary Herald , October 9, 2007.
  3. "ReLit award winners named". Ottawa Citizen , July 27, 2008.
  4. "Novice poets share national prize". Ottawa Citizen , June 5, 1993.
  5. "Calgary's Roberta Rees wins Alberta Fiction Award". Calgary Herald , March 23, 1993.
  6. "Rees, Wagamese share novel win at Writers Guild of Alberta gala". Edmonton Journal , May 14, 1995.