Poetry Project: M. Nourbese Philip, March 12, 2009

M. Nourbese Philip lives in Toronto and is a poet, essayist and novelist. She has published four books of poetry, one novel and three collections of essays. She was awarded a Pushcart Prize (USA, 1981), the Casa de las Americas Prize (Cuba, 1988), the Tradewinds Collective Prize (1988) and was made a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry (USA, 1990). Her work was recognized in 1995 by the Arts Foundation of Toronto by its Writing and Publishing Award. In 1999 her play Coups and Calypsos was a Dora Award finalist. She recently completed a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy.

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