Writing īrand explores themes of gender, race, sexuality and feminism, white male domination, injustices and "the moral hypocrisies of Canada" Despite being often characterized as a Caribbean writer, Brand identifies as a "black Canadian". Brand is also a co-editor of Toronto-based literary journal Brick. In 2017 she was appointed as poetry editor of McClelland & Stewart, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada. She is currently Professor of English at the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph where she also holds a University Research Chair.Distinguished Poet for the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Chair, Vancouver Island University (2006).Lawrence University, Canton, New York (2004–05) Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Writer-in-Residence, St.Ruth Wynn Woodward Professor in Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University.Assistant Professor of English, University of Guelph (1992–94).She has held a number of academic positions, including: Her first book, Fore Day Morning: Poems, came out in 1978, since then Brand has published numerous works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, as well as editing anthologies and working on documentary films with the National Film Board of Canada. She attended the University of Toronto and earned a BA degree (English and Philosophy) in 1975 and later attained an MA (1989) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). She graduated from Naparima Girls' High School in San Fernando, Trinidad, in 1970, and emigrated to Canada. Biography ĭionne Brand was born in Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017 and has won the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Trillium Prize for Literature, the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, the Harbourfront Writers' Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012. Dionne Brand CM FRSC (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian.
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