Isa Milman (born 1949) is a
German
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-born Canadian writer and visual artist living in
British Columbia.
The daughter of
Holocaust survivors, she was born in a
displaced persons camp
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in Germany. Milman came to
Boston with her parents and studied at
Tufts University. She came to Canada in 1975. She received a master's degree in rehabilitation science from
McGill University and taught
occupational therapy
Occupational therapy (OT) is a global healthcare profession. It involves the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful activities, or ''occupations'', of individuals, groups, or communities. The field of ...
there. She later moved to
Victoria, where she worked at the Epilepsy and Parkinson's Centre.
Canadian Jewish Book Award The Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards were a Canadian program of literary awards, managed, produced and presented annually by the Koffler Centre of the Arts to works judged to be the year's best works of literature by Jewish Canadian ...
.[ Milman's work has been included in various literary magazines and anthologies.][
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References
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1949 births
Living people
Canadian women poets
Tufts University alumni
McGill University alumni
Academic staff of McGill University