Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her books of poetry include: White Album (2008), Metropolis (2005), Reading Like a Girl (2004), and The Body of My Garden (2002). Books as editor include: White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007), and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (2004). She was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 1998 and received the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003. Her radio drama, "The Raj Kumari's Lullaby," was produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Dunlop's translations of poems by Cuban poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela are forthcoming in 2009 in an anthology from Exile Editions titled Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World. Her work in progress is a book of translations of the love poems of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at York University, Toronto.
Awards
Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry 2003
Longlist Chapters-Robertson Davies Prize for Fiction 1999
Shortlist CBC Literary Award for Poetry 1998
Selected
Publications
White Album (Inanna Publications,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9808822-3-0
Metropolis (Mansfield Press,
2005)
ISBN: 1-894469-24-0
Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press,
2004) ISBN: 0-88753-396-5
The Body of My Garden
(Mansfield Press, 2002) ISBN 1-894469-08-9.
Selected Anthologies
White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press,
2007)
ISBN: 978-1-55014-484-0
Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press,
2004)
ISBN: 1-894469-16-X
Books in Print
Dunlop, Rishma
White Album (Inanna Publications,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9808822-3-0, $22.95
Metropolis (Mansfield Press,
2005)
ISBN: 1-894469-24-0, $16.95
Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press,
2004) ISBN: 0-88753-396-5, $18.95
The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002) ISBN 1-894469-08-9, $14.95
Rishma Dunlop
rdunlop@edu.yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/inanna/poetry.html
http://www.mansfieldpress.net/poetry.htm
http://www.blackmosspress.com/main/?cat=18
Poet in the School
(Toronto)
Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her books of poetry include: White Album (2008), Metropolis (2005), Reading Like a Girl (2004), and The Body of My Garden (2002). Books as editor include: White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007), and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (2004). She was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 1998 and received the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003. Her radio drama, "The Raj Kumari's Lullaby," was produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Dunlop's translations of poems by Cuban poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela are forthcoming in 2009 in an anthology from Exile Editions titled Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World. Her work in progress is a book of translations of the love poems of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. She is a professor of English and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at York University, Toronto. She teaches writing workshops at schools, universities,and public and community organizations and she frequently appears at conferences as a keynote speaker. Dunlop also teaches workshops on Creative Writing Pedagogy for educators and has done training sessions for the Toronto District Schoolboard.
Grade Levels: All
Fees: $400 per 1/2 day workshop
Classroom Approach:
School visits are adapted to department needs and integrated
into classroom curricula, including teaching of poetic forms, working with
global forms of poetry,fiction, diasporic writing, environmental writing,
creative non-fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Students work to create
literary chapbooks, zines, and they learn about the connections of
creative writing and literary works to their lives and to broader
connections to society, history, human rights, and diversity.
Workshops for educators are designed to alleviate fear and discomfort by
providing engagements in writing practices in a supportive environment so
that teachers of writing develop confidence in their own writing and are
enabled to engage their students in creative writing with innovative,
imaginative approaches. Weekend, evening, and longer courses may also be
arranged with negotiable fees.