Roxane Desjardins

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Roxane Desjardins
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Desjardins in 2016
Born1991
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • general manager
LanguageFrench
GenrePoetry

Roxane Desjardins (born 1991) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. She is the editor and general manager of the publishing house, Les Herbes rouges. [1]

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Biography

Roxane Desjardins was born in Montreal, 1991. [2]

She began her literary practice with the artist's book and the fanzine. [3] Her first collection of poetry, Ciseaux, was published in 2014 by Les Herbes rouges. She won the Prix Émile-Nelligan as well as the Prix Félix-Leclerc de la poésie  [ fr ] and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec  [ fr ]. [4] [5] In 2016, her story, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire, was published by Les Herbes Rouges, for which she was a finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit. [6]

Desjardins served on the editorial board of the magazine Moebius between 2016 and 2018. [7] Le Revers, her second collection of poetry, was published by Herbes Rouges in 2018, and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit. [8] These three works received critical acclaim. [9] [10] [11] The same year, she published La Poésie des Herbes rouges, an anthology co-edited with Jean-Simon DesRochers  [ fr ]. Desjardins became publisher and general manager of Les Herbes rouges in 2021. [1] [12]

Prizes and honours

Selected works

Poetry collections

Narrative

Anthologies

Zines

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