Rachel Rose
Rachel Rose is the author of four poetry books, and has won poetry, fiction, and non-fiction awards, including a 2014 and 2016 Pushcart Prize, the Bronwen Wallace Prize for Fiction from The Writers’ Trust of Canada and a 2016 nomination for a Governor General’s Award. Formerly a fellow at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, she is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Vancouver. Her memoir, The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops, (St. Martin’s Press) and an anthology she edited, Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food, were both published in 2017. Recent work has appeared in publications such as The Globe & Mail, The American Poetry Review, Monte Cristo Magazine, The Vancouver Sun and The Press Democrat. Rachel lived in Montreal, Seattle and Japan before returning to her birth city of Vancouver.
