Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, ''Giving My Body to Science'', ''Notes on Arrival and Departure'', and ''Song and Spectacle''. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States. In 2011, Rose and composer Leslie Uyeda were commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver to write the libretto for Canada's first lesbian opera, ''When The Sun Comes Out'', which premiered in August 2013 in Vancouver and in Toronto in June 2014.City of Vancouver webpage
/ref> Rose was Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2017. Rose's short story collection ''The Octopus has Three Hearts'' was nominated for the 2021

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Personal life

Rose grew up on

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.Email from Rose, dated August 28, 2010 In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She has worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher, and as the poetry mentor in the Writer's Studio at

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. In 2015 she was a resident in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Bibliography

Poetry

*''Giving My Body to Science'' (1999), McGill-Queen's University Press *''Notes on Arrival and Departure'' (2005),

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*''Song and Spectacle'' (2012),

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*''Marry & Burn'' (2015), Harbour Publishing

Essays

*"Creating Benjamin", ''Prairie Fire'', Volume 22, No. 4 (Winter 2001) *"Letters to a Young Mother Who Writes" (in ''Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood'', edited by Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam and Cathy Stonehouse, 2008, McGill/Queens University Press) *"A Tale of Two Mommies" (in ''Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood'', edited by Cori Howard, 2009,

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Short stories

*"Sundays" (in ''Hot & Bothered'', edited by Aren X. Tulchinsky, 1998,

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) *"Want", ''

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'', May/June 1999 *"The Glass Eye", ''

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'', Vol 24, No. 3&4 (Fall and Winter 2007)

Anthologies

*''Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association'' (1998), Ten Speed Press *''In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry'' (2005), Polestar *''White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood'' (2007), York University *''Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv'' (2008), Red Hen Press *''Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems'' (2009), Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Operas

*''When The Sun Comes Out'' (2013)

Books

* ''The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World's K-9 Cops'' (2017), St Martin's Press * ''The Octopus has Three Hearts'' (2021), Douglas & McIntyre

Awards and prizes

*1997 - winner, Bronwen Wallace Award for fiction *2000 - finalist,

Pat Lowther Memorial 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.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 ...

for poetry *2000 - finalist, Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal for poetry *2000 - winner, Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Award (''Giving My Body to Science'') *2013 - winner, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (''Song and Spectacle'')"Going for the Silver"
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'', May 8, 2013. *2013 - winner, Pat Lowther Memorial Award for poetryRachel Rose Wins the Pat Lowther Memorial Award
*2016 - finalist, Pat Lowther Memorial Award for poetry *2016 - finalist,

Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...

for poetry *2021 - longlisted,

References

External links

Rachel Rose personal websiteOfficial site of Vancouver's Poet Laureate
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