Roberta Rees

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Roberta Rees (born 1954 in New Westminster, British Columbia)"Author finds voice in elements". Calgary Herald, November 4, 1994. is a Canadian writer from Alberta."Roberta Rees gets into writing's rhythm". Calgary Herald, October 9, 2007.

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. 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."ReLit award winners named". Ottawa Citizen, July 27, 2008.

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,"Novice poets share national prize". Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 1993. and her novel Beneath the Faceless Mountain won the Alberta New Fiction Competition for unpublished manuscripts in 1993."Calgary's Roberta Rees wins Alberta Fiction Award". Calgary Herald, March 23, 1993. 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."Rees, Wagamese share novel win at Writers Guild of Alberta gala". Edmonton Journal, May 14, 1995. 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).