Trish Salah is a Canadian

Canada

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 feminist writer and educator. Her first volume of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, was published in 2002 by TSAR Publications

TSAR Publications

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.

Salah was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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, and is of Lebanese and Irish Canadian heritage. She later studied creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal

Montreal

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, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at York University

York University

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 in Toronto

Toronto

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. She currently teaches at Bishop's University

Bishop's University

Bishop's University is a predominantly undergraduate university in Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Bishop's is one of three universities in the province of Quebec that teach primarily in the English language...

 and Concordia University

Concordia University

Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...

. Her creative and scholarly work addresses transgender

Transgender

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 and transsexual themes, as well as questions of diasporic Arab identity, anti-racism, queer politics and social and economic justice. Her poetry moves between and combines traditional and experimental forms.

External links

• Faculty page at Bishop's University
• http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/cpjrn/vol57/woodland.html