Sina Queyras is the 2007 - 2008 Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence. She is in residence at the University of Calgary from August 15, 2007 until June 15, 2008.

 

Sina Queyras reads from Lemon Hound, Photo: Monique de St. Croix Sina grew up in her mother's Chrysler, traveling the roads of western Canada . She has lived on Vancouver Island, and in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, New Jersey, Brooklyn and Philadelphia . Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, recently received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press. Last fall she edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for Drunken Boat where she is a contributing editor. From 2005-2007 Queyras co-curated the *belladonna reading series in New York .

 

Sina's work has been published widely in journals and anthologies. She has taught creative writing at Haverford College and Rutgers University .

 

Photo: Monique de St. Croix During her residency, Sina will work on several projects: Expressway, a collection of poetry concerning mobility; Autobiography of Childhood, a novel; Everyone is Always Talking, a play about Gertrude Stein; and Swallow, collection of short fiction. Other projects include an essay on Lisa Robertson and the language of lyric in Canadian women's writing, and two anthologies - one of Canadian fiction, and another of autobiographical writing.

Read Sina's blog, Lemon Hound.

OnCampus speaks with Sina Queyras, the 2007 - 2008 Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence.

Contact Sina:
Sina Queyras
Markin-Flanagan Canadian Writer-in-Residence
Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program
Faculty of Humanities, University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
mf@ucalgary.ca