Mary di Michele

Poet, novelist, and member of the collaborative writing group, Yoko’s Dogs, Mary di Michele is the author of eleven books, including a selected poems, Stranger in You (Oxford University Press, 1995) and the novel, Tenor of Love (Viking Canada/ Simon & Schuster, USA, 2005). She lives in Montreal, where she teaches at Concordia University in the creative writing program. Her most recent books are The Flower of Youth, Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems (ECW Press, 2011) and with Yoko’s Dogs, Whisk (Pedlar Press, 2013). She has won numerous awards, including first prize for poetry in the CBC Literary Competition, the Air Canada Writing Award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Competition. Her poetry books have also been shortlisted for the Trillium Award, and the A.M. Klein Prize twice.