Dionne Brand is a renowned poet known for formal experimentation and the beauty and urgency of her work. Her literary credentials are legion. Her poetry collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Triullium Book Award... From 2009 to 2012, she seved as Toronto's Poet Laureate. In 2021, she received the Windham-Campbell Prize. Also a novelist and essayist, she lives in Toronto.