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Biography

Born in Guayguayare, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1953 Brand emigrated to Canada. She studied at University of Toronto, where she earned a B.A. in English and Philosophy, an M.A. in the Philosophy of Education, and worked on a Ph.D. in Women's History. Currently she teaches at University of Guelph.^[1] January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The University of Guelph is a medium-sized university located in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1964. ...

In addition to her writing, Brand has directed four documentary films for the National Film Board of Canada, including: Listening for Something: Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation. The National Film Board of Canada (usually National Film Board or NFB) is a Canadian public filmmaking organization established to produce and distribute films that inform Canadians and promote Canada around the world. ... Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer. ...

She has been an active fighter for the rights of marginalized communities, especially black people and women. Brand is also a lesbian and frequently explores themes of gender, race, and sexuality in her writing. This article is about same-sex desire and sexuality among women. ...

In 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. ^[2] The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ...

Despite the similarity of their names, she should not be confused with poet Di Brandt. Di Brandt (born 1952) is an award-winning Canadian poet and literary critic. ...

Bibliography

Poetry

• Fore Day Morning - 1978
• Earth Magic - 1979
• Primitive Offensive - 1982
• Winter Epigrams - 1983
• Chronicles of the Hostile Sun - 1984
• No Language is Neutral - 1990 (nominated for the 1990 Governor General's Award for poetry)
• Land to Light On - 1997 (winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for poetry)
• thirsty - 2002 (shortlisted for the 2003 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Excerpt from thirsty, online at CBC Words at Large
• Inventory - 2005 (nominated for the 2006 Governor General's Award for poetry, shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the Trillium Book Award)
• Excerpt from Inventory, online at CBC Words at Large

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Novels

• In Another Place, Not Here - 1996
• At the Full and Change of the Moon - 1999
• What We All Long For - 2004 (winner of the 2006 City of Toronto Book Award)

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Short Stories

• Sans Souci and Other Stories - 1988
• Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism - 1986

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Non-Fiction

• Rivers have sources, trees have roots: speaking of racism - 1986
• No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s - 1991
• Imagination, Representation, and Culture - 1994
• Bread Out of Stone - 1994 (revised 1998)
• A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging - 2001

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External links

• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio clip