Small Life

Dionne Brand is a renowned poet, novelist, and essayist known for formal experimentation and the beauty and urgency of her work. Her volumes of poetry include Land to Light On, thirsty, Inventory, Ossuaries (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize), and The Blue Clerk (winner of the Trillium Book Award). Theory, her 2018 novel, received the Toronto Book Award, and Brand received the 2021 Windham- Campbell Prize in Fiction. She served as Toronto's third poet laureate from 2009 to 2012 and was named to the Order of Canada in 2017. Until recently a professor in the School of English and Theater Studies at the University of Guelph, Brand will serve as the editorial director of Alchemy, a new imprint at Knopf Canada.