Nicole Markotić is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in

Windsor, Ontario Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the southe ...

. She teaches creative writing at the

University of Windsor , mottoeng = Goodness, Discipline and Knowledge , established = , academic_affiliations = CARL, COU, Universities Canada , former_names = Assumption College (1857-1956)Assumption University of Windsor (1956-1963) , type = Public universi ...

. Markotic specializes in the subjects of Canadian literature, poetry, children's literature, disability in film and disability in literature. Previously she was an assistant professor at the

University of Calgary The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being ins ...

. She was the co-editor, along with

Ashok Mathur Ashok Mathur is a South Asian (Indo-Canadian) cultural organizer, writer and visual artist. Prior to this he was the head of Creative Studies and a professor in the Department of Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan cam ...

, of Calgary-based DisOrientation Chapbooks. She was the poetry editor of Red Deer College Press from 1998 to 2004. She co-edited ''The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film'' a critical book about disability in film, which was published by Ohio State Press in 2010. She also edited ''Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works'', which was released in 2017.

Bibliography

*''connect the dots'' – 1994 *''Yellow Pages: a catalogue of intentions'' – 1995 *''more excess'' – 1997 *''minotaurs & other alphabets'' – 1998 *''Widows and Orphans'' – 2004 *''Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot'' – 2008 *''Bent at the Spine'' – 2012 *"Rough Patch" – 2017 *''After Beowulf'' - 2022

Awards

* bpNichol Chapbook Award (''minotaurs & other alphabets'', 1998)McGoogan,Ken. "Markotic wins chapbook award." Calgary Herald. 11 July 1998: 17.

References

Canadian women poets Writers from Windsor, Ontario Living people 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets Academic staff of University of Windsor 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers 1962 births Disability studies academics {{Canada-poet-stub