Sina Queyras (they/them) is the author, most recently of Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf, and of the poetry collections, My Ariel, MxT, Expressway and Lemon Hound all from Coach House. Their work has been nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and won The Friends of Poetry Award from Poetry Magazine, a Lambda Award, the ReLit, a Pushcart Prize and Gold in the National Magazine Award; they have twice won the Pat Lowther and the AM Klein Award for Poetry. Their first novel, Autobiography of Childhood was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. In 2005 they edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books, and with Erin Wunker and Genevieve Robichaud they edited Nicole Brossard: A Reader. Queyras is founding editor of Lemon Hound. They have taught creative writing at Rutgers, Haverford and currently curate Writers Read at Concordia University where they teach Creative Writing.
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