Alison Calder
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- University of Saskatchewan (BA)
- University of Western Ontario (MA, PhD)
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| spouse = Warren Cariou
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Alison Calder (born 21 December 1969 in London) is a Canadian poet, literary critic and educator.
Biography
Calder was born in London, England on 21 December 1969 and grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She studied at the University of Saskatchewan, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts, and at the University of Western Ontario where she earned a Master of Arts and a PhD in English Literature.{{cite web |last=Abdou |first=Angie |date=2013-12-15 |title=Alison Calder |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alison-calder |access-date=20 May 2021 |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia}} She was also a Distinguished Junior Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia.{{cite book |last1=Handley |first1=William R. |last2=Lewis |first2=Nathaniel |title=True West: Authenticity and the American West |date=2004-01-01 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-2410-0 |page=353 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWSrpJG30wEC&pg=PA353 |language=en}}
In 2004, she won the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.{{cite web |title=Alison Calder |url=https://www.writerstrust.com/authors/alison-calder/ |website=Writers' Trust of Canada |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}}
Calder wrote a collection of essays in 2005 called History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies which examines literary criticism.
Her debut collection of poetry, Wolf Tree, was published in 2007. It won the 2008 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author at the 2008 Manitoba Book Awards.{{cite book |last1=Besson |first1=Françoise |title=Ecology and Literatures in English: Writing to Save the Planet |date=2018-12-14 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-5275-2339-5 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uZ_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 |language=en}} It was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second collection, In the Tiger Park, was published in 2014 and was a finalist for the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry.{{cite web |title=Alison Calder {{!}} Product Creator(s) {{!}} JackPine Press |url=https://jackpinepress.com/creator/alison-calder/ |website=jackpinepress.com |access-date=20 May 2021}}
She also co-wrote the chapbook Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems, with Jeanette Lynes.
She lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba and works in the English Department at the University of Manitoba, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is married to writer Warren Cariou.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080914113825/http://www.coteaubooks.com/authorpages/calder.html Coteau Books Profile]
- [http://www.thinairwinnipeg.ca/writers/alison-calder Winnipeg International Writers Festival Biography]
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
Category:Writers from Saskatoon
Category:Writers from Winnipeg
Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:University of Saskatchewan alumni
Category:University of Western Ontario alumni