Rachel Rose

Rachel Rose
Born (1970-09-20) September 20, 1970 (age 56)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
OccupationsPoet, essayist and short story writer
Writing career
GenresPoetry, essay, fiction
Notable worksNotes on Arrival and Departure
Websitewww.rachelrose.ca

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.

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. 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.

Bibliography

Poetry

Essays

Short stories

Anthologies

Operas

Books

Awards and prizes

Awards for Rose's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
1997 Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction Winner
2000 Giving My Body to Science Pat Lowther Memorial Award Finalist
2000 Giving My Body to Science Gerald Lampert Award Finalist
2000 Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal Finalist
2000 Giving My Body to Science Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Award Winner
2013 Song and Spectacle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry Winner
2013 Song and Spectacle Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner
2016 Marry & Burn Pat Lowther Memorial Award Finalist
2016 Marry & Burn Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry Finalist
2021 The Octopus Has Three Hearts Giller Prize Longlist

References

  1. 1 2 "City of Vancouver webpage". Archived from the original on April 1, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Email from Rose, dated August 28, 2010
  3. ↑ "Micro-interview with Rachel Ros", The Writing University, University of Iowa. Archived 2015-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Quebec writer wins development award: Prize honours poet Bronwen Wallace". Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 1997.
  5. 1 2 "The lists are in: Prizes, prizes and more prizes". Vancouver Sun, April 8, 2000.
  6. ↑ "Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards: Distinct-society analysis gets two English-language book prizes". Montreal Gazette, December 1, 2000.
  7. ↑ Bookey, Seth J. (May 8, 2013). "Going for the Silver – Gay City News". Gay City News. Archived from the original on February 5, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
  8. ↑ Rachel Rose Wins the Pat Lowther Memorial Award Archived 2019-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ "Miriam Toews, Omar El Akkad & Katherena Vermette among 12 authors longlisted for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books. October 1, 2021. Archived from the original on December 10, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2023.