Emilia Nielsen is a

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writer and academic. An associate professor in the faculty of social sciences at

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, she has published both poetry and academic literature on the sociological aspects of health and disability. In 2014, her debut poetry collection ''Surge Narrows'' was shortlisted for the

Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert Gerald Lampert (c. 1924 - April 29, 1978) w ...

,"League of Canadian Poets Announces 2014 Prize Shortlists & Spoken Word Winner!"
''Open Book Toronto'', April 1, 2014. and in 2019, her second poetry collection ''Body Work'' was shortlisted for the

Pat Lowther Award The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry The Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a lesbian-themed book of poetry by a female writer. At the first two Lambda Literary Awards in 1989 and 1990, a single award ...

."Vivek Shraya, Joshua Whitehead among Canadian finalists for Lambda Literary Awards"
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'', March 7, 2019. Her first academic work, ''Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair'', was published by

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in 2019. Her academic writing has also appeared in scholarly journals such as ''

Canadian Woman Studies ''Canadian Woman Studies'' (French: ''Les cahiers de la femme'') is a bilingual feminist quarterly academic journal covering women's studies. It is published by Inanna Publications and was established in 1978 by Marion Lynn and Shelagh Wilkinson ...

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Performance Research ''Performance Research'' is a specialist performance arts journal published bi-monthly (from 2012). It is an independent, peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd for ARC, a division of the Centre for Performan ...

'' and ''

Disability Studies Quarterly The Ohio State University Libraries are the collective libraries of the Ohio State University and its satellite campuses. This system welcomes Ohio State faculty, students, visiting scholars and the general public to study and research. It includes ...

'', and her creative writing has appeared in ''

Plenitude The principle of plenitude asserts that the universe contains all possible forms of existence. Arthur Lovejoy, a historian of ideas, was the first to trace the history of this philosophically important principle explicitly. Lovejoy distinguishes ...

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The Antigonish Review ''The Antigonish Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine publishing new and established contemporary literary fiction, reviews, non-fiction articles/essays, translations, and poetry. Since 2005, the magazine runs an annual competition, the Sheld ...

'', '' Contemporary Verse 2'', ''

Descant A descant, discant, or is any of several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice (''cantus'') above or removed from others. The Harvard Dictionary of Music states: A descant is a ...

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The Fiddlehead ''The Fiddlehead'' is a Canadian literary magazine, published four times annually at the University of New Brunswick. It is the oldest Canadian literary magazine which is still in circulation. History and profile ''The Fiddlehead'' was establis ...

'', ''

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'', '' Prairie Fire'' and ''

Room In a building or large vehicle, like a ship, a room is any enclosed space within a number of walls to which entry is possible only via a door or other dividing structure that connects it to either a passage (architecture), passageway, another roo ...

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