Rachel Rose
{{Short description|Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer}}
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Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, Notes on Arrival and Departure, and Song and Spectacle. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
In 2011, Rose and composer Leslie Uyeda were commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver to write the libretto for Canada's first lesbian opera, When The Sun Comes Out, which premiered in August 2013 in Vancouver and in Toronto in June 2014.{{Cite web |url=http://vancouver.ca/people-programs/vancouvers-poet-laureate.aspx |title=City of Vancouver webpage |access-date=2014-12-31 |archive-date=2019-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401182109/https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/vancouvers-poet-laureate.aspx |url-status=live }}
Rose was Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2017.
Rose's short story collection The Octopus has Three Hearts was nominated for the 2021 Giller Prize.
Personal life
Rose grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle.Email from Rose, dated August 28, 2010 In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She has worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher, and as the poetry mentor in the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. In 2015 she was a resident in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.Micro-interview with Rachel Rose, The Writing University, University of Iowa, http://www.writinguniversity.org/blog/micro-interview-with-rachel-rose {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151217143351/http://www.writinguniversity.org/blog/micro-interview-with-rachel-rose |date=2015-12-17 }}
Bibliography
=Poetry=
- Giving My Body to Science (1999), McGill-Queen's University Press
- Notes on Arrival and Departure (2005), McClelland & Stewart
- Song and Spectacle (2012), Harbour Publishing
- Marry & Burn (2015), Harbour Publishing
=Essays=
- "Creating Benjamin", Prairie Fire, Volume 22, No. 4 (Winter 2001)
- "Letters to a Young Mother Who Writes" (in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, edited by Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam and Cathy Stonehouse, 2008, McGill/Queens University Press)
- "A Tale of Two Mommies" (in Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood, edited by Cori Howard, 2009, Key Porter Books)
=Short stories=
- "Sundays" (in Hot & Bothered, edited by Aren X. Tulchinsky, 1998, Arsenal Pulp Press)
- "Want", This Magazine, May/June 1999
- "The Glass Eye", The Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol 24, No. 3&4 (Fall and Winter 2007)
=Anthologies=
- Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association (1998), Ten Speed Press
- In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005), Polestar
- White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007), York University
- Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv (2008), Red Hen Press
- Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (2009), Wilfrid Laurier University Press
=Operas=
- When The Sun Comes Out (2013)
= Books =
- The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World's K-9 Cops (2017), St Martin's Press
- The Octopus has Three Hearts (2021), Douglas & McIntyre
Awards and prizes
References
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External links
- [http://www.rachelrose.ca Rachel Rose personal website]
- [http://www.vancouververse.ca Official site of Vancouver's Poet Laureate]
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Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:Canadian lesbian writers
Category:Canadian women short story writers
Category:Canadian women essayists
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:20th-century Canadian women writers
Category:20th-century Canadian short story writers
Category:21st-century Canadian short story writers
Category:International Writing Program alumni
Category:20th-century Canadian essayists
Category:21st-century Canadian essayists
Category:Municipal poets laureate in Canada