Reading Series - Canisia Lubrin
The Creative Writing Department is proud to host Canisia Lubrin for a public reading and discussion. All are welcome!
Canisia Lubrin is the author of five books, Voodoo Hypothesis, The Dyzgraphxst, The World After Rain (2025), Code Noir and Bright Machine (2026). Her honours include a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She has been twice a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. The World After Rain earned Lubrin her second OCM Bocas Prize for poetry. She is associate professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA and the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart. Code Noir, Lubrin’s fiction debut and winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has 59 drawings by celebrated visual artist Torkwase Dyson. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin lives in Whitby.
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