Madhur Anand
{{Short description|Canadian poet}}
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Madhur Anand is a Canadian poet and professor of ecology and environmental sciences. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Scientific career
Anand completed her PhD in theoretical ecology at Western University in 1997 and conducts research on ecological change and sustainability science. Her topics of research include coupled human-environment systems and forest and forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems, and especially how sources of stress and disturbance, such as agriculture and climate change, impact these ecosystems across different spatial scales and time scales. She uses simulation modelling, statistical tools, dendrochronology, and other observational methods. She is a full professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph where she leads the [https://anand-lab-globalecochange.uoguelph.ca/ Global Ecological Change and Sustainability] lab.
Anand has received awards including the Ontario [https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/84507/innovative-ontario-scientists-receive-premiers-research-excellence-awards Premier's Research Excellence Award] and the [https://alumni.westernu.ca/connect/recognition-awards/alumni-awards-of-merit/merit-previous.html Young Alumni Award of Merit] from Western University. She was also the [https://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2006/07/u_of_g_gains_fo.html Canada Research Chair in Global Ecological Change] at the University of Guelph and, before that, the Canada Research Chair in Biocomplexity of the Environment at Laurentian University.
Interdisciplinary Initiatives
She was director of the [https://uwaterloo.ca/complexity-innovation/sites/ca.complexity-innovation/files/uploads/files/2020_10yearprogressreport_mar12_final_0.pdf Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation] from 2015 to 2018, where she organized several interdisciplinary events such as [https://uwaterloo.ca/complexity-innovation/events/living-precipice-interdisciplinary-conference-resilience Living on the Precipice: Interdisciplinary Conference on Resilience in Complex Natural and Human Systems] and [https://uwaterloo.ca/complexity-innovation/events/poetry-and-complexity-readings-and-conversation-between Poetry and Complexity], the latter featuring Nobel Laureate scientist and writer Roald Hoffman and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout. The event was covered in [https://rungh.org/ Rungh Magazine].{{cite web | url=https://rungh.org/on-poetry-and-complexity/ | title=On Poetry and Complexity | date=19 March 2019 }}
Literary works
Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as the Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, [http://www.malahatreview.ca/ The Malahat Review], [https://lemonhound.com/ Lemon Hound], [http://www.therustytoque.com/ The Rusty Toque], and [https://thewalrus.ca/ The Walrus]. Her work also appeared in the anthologies The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230802060|title=The shape of content : creative writing in mathematics and science|date=2008|publisher=A K Peters|others=Chandler Davis, Marjorie Senechal, Jan Zwicky|isbn=978-1-56881-444-5|location=Wellesley, Mass.|oclc=230802060}} and How a Poem Moves.{{Cite book|last=Sol|first=Adam|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1051050893|title=How a poem moves : a field guide for readers of poetry|date=2019|isbn=978-1-77041-456-3|edition=PB|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|oclc=1051050893}} She co-edited the first contemporary anthology of Canadian ecological poetry Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry (Your Scrivener Press, 2009).{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427676549|title=Regreen : new Canadian ecological poetry|date=2009|publisher=Your Scrivener Press|others=Madhur Anand, Adam Dickinson|isbn=978-1-896350-36-3|location=Sudbury, Ont.|oclc=427676549}}
Her first collection of poems, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes,{{cite web|title=A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes|url=http://publishersweekly.com/978-0-7710-0698-2|work=Publishers Weekly}}{{Cite book|last=Anand|first=Madhur|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/886483848|title=A new index for predicting catastrophes : poems|date=2015|isbn=978-0-7710-0698-2|location=[Toronto]|oclc=886483848}} was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2015 and was nominated for a Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2016.{{Cite web|title=Guelph book reading features some of Ontario's best|url=https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-book-reading-features-some-of-ontarios-best-564051|access-date=2021-12-29|website=GuelphToday.com|date=17 March 2017 |language=en}} This collection challenges the reader to re-think ecopoetry and includes numerous examples of found poems derived from her own scientific papers. The CBC named the book as one of ten all time “trailblazing” Canadian poetry collections.{{Cite web|last=CBC|title=10 trailblazing Canadian poetry collections you should read|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/10-trailblazing-canadian-poetry-collections-you-should-read-1.4205304|access-date=29 December 2021}}
Her memoir This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart {{Cite book|last=Anand|first=Madhur|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1176223071|title=This red line goes straight to your heart : a memoir in halves|date=2020|isbn=978-0-7710-0778-1|location=New York|oclc=1176223071}} won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2020 Governor General's Awards.{{Cite web|title=This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves|url=https://ggbooks.ca/this-red-line-goes-straight-to-your-heart-a-memoir-in-halves|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Governor General's Literary Awards|language=en}} The work exemplifies the sub-genre of creative non-fiction and describes intra- and inter-generational perspectives on topics ranging from the Indian Partition to life as a young scientist. The award jury noted how the memoir “blends science, personal narrative and fictional elements to push the non-fiction form into bold new territory”, while filmmaker Deepa Mehta writes that “... the different perspectives are truly poetic and at times heartbreaking”.
Her second book of poetry [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/673667/parasitic-oscillations-by-madhur-anand/9780771099410 Parasitic Oscillations] was published by Penguin Random House to international acclaim {{cite web | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/reviews/157654/parasitic-oscillations | title=Review: Parasitic Oscillations | date=12 July 2022 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.orionmagazine.org/2022/01/new-year-new-poetry-eight-fresh-poetry-recommendations-for-2022/ | title=Orion Magazine - New Year, New Poetry: Eight Fresh Poetry Recommendations for 2022 | date=10 January 2022 }} and was the CBC [https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-cbc-books-spring-preview-2022-roundup-1.6381215 Top Pick for Poetry] in Spring 2022.
See also
{{Portal| Poetry| Biography| Ontario |Canada}}
References
External links
- {{official website|https://ses.uoguelph.ca/people/madhur-anand}}
- [https://www.alieward.com/ologies/creativeecology Ologies with Alie Ward: Theoretical & Creative Ecology (SCIENCE & ECOPOETRY) with Madhur Anand] Extended conversation with Anand
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Category:University of Western Ontario alumni
Category:Writers from Thunder Bay
Category:Governor General's Award–winning non-fiction writers
Category:Canadian women non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century Canadian memoirists
Category:Canadian people of Indian descent