Rachel Rose
Encyclopedia
Rachel Rose is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published two collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science and Notes on Arrival and Departure. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
(British Columbia
), and in Vancouver
, Anacortes and Seattle. In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She's worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher and freelance writer. She lives with her partner and three children in Vancouver
, where she is the poetry and lyric prose mentor in The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University
.
Personal life
She grew up on Hornby IslandHornby Island
Hornby Island of British Columbia, Canada, is a Northern Gulf Island parallel with Vancouver Island's Comox Valley.A small community of 1,074 residents is distributed across the island. The island is culturally distinctive as it was the site of a large immigration of American draft dodgers during...
(British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
), and in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, Anacortes and Seattle. In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She's worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher and freelance writer. She lives with her partner and three children in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, where she is the poetry and lyric prose mentor in The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
.
Poetry
- Giving My Body to Science (1999) McGill-Queen's University PressMcGill-Queen's University PressThe McGill-Queen's University Press is a joint venture between McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario....
- Notes on Arrival and Departure (2005) McClelland & Stewart
Essays
- Creating Benjamin, Prairie Fire, Volume 22, No. 4, (Winter 2001)
- Letters to a Young Mother Who Writes (in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, edited by Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam and Cathy Stonehouse, 2008, McGill/Queens University Press)
- A Tale of Two Mommies (in Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood, edited by Cori Howard, 2009, Key Porter BooksKey Porter BooksKey Porter Books is a Canadian book publishing company. Founded in 1979 by Canadian publisher Anna Porter and Key Publishers Limited of Toronto, the company specializes in Canadian non-fiction, although it has published some fiction titles as well. A controlling share of the company was purchased...
)
Short stories
- Sundays (in Hot & Bothered, edited by Karen X. TulchinskyKaren X. TulchinskyKaren X. Tulchinsky is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, anthologist and screenwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is openly lesbian.- Literary/ Film Television Career :...
, 1998, Arsenal Pulp PressArsenal Pulp PressArsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, and is noted for founding the annual Three-Day Novel Contest .Authors who have been published by Arsenal Pulp ...
) - Want, This MagazineThis MagazineThis Magazine is an independent alternative Canadian political magazine. It was launched "by a gang of school activists" in 1966 as This Magazine is About Schools, a journal covering political issues in the education system...
, May/June 1999 - The Glass Eye, The Alaska Quarterly ReviewThe Alaska Quarterly ReviewThe Alaska Quarterly Review is a biannual literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Ronald Spatz serves as editor-in-chief...
, Vol 24, No. 3&4 (Fall and Winter 2007)
Anthologies
- Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association (1998) Ten Speed Press
- In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005) Polestar
- White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007) York University
- Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv (2008) Red Hen Press
- Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (2009) Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Awards and prizes
- 1997 Bronwen Wallace Award for fiction.
- 2000 Finalist, Pat Lower Memorial Prize for poetry.
- 2000 Finalist, Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize for poetry.
- 2000 Finalist, Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal for poetry.
- 2000 Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Award for best book of poetry published in Quebec (for Giving My Body to Science)