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Alison Calder

Alison Calder’s first poetry collection, Wolf Tree, won two Manitoba Book Awards and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Award for Canadian poetry. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies, most notably Breathing Fire:Canada’s New Poets and Exposed, and has twice circulated on Winnipeg city buses.She is the editor of Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007) and a critical edition of Frederick Philip Grove’s 1924 novel Settlers of the Marsh (Borealis, 2006), and the co-editor of History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies (University of Manitoba Press, 2005).Born in England, Alison Calder grew up in Saskatoon and now lives in Winnipeg, where she teaches Canadian Literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba.

Books by Alison Calder

Masculindians

Conversations about Indigenous Manhood

edited by Sam McKegney
interviewee Joseph Boyden, Tomson Highway, Lee Maracle, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Basil H. Johnston, Daniel David Moses, Louise Bernice Halfe, Taiaiake Alfred, Janice C. Hill, Kim Anderson, Thomas Kimeksun Thrasher, Brendan Hokowhitu, Ty P. Kawika Tengan, Warren Cariou, Alison Calder, Daniel Heath Justice, Adrian Stimson, Terrance Houle, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Richard Van Camp, Joanne Arnott, Neal McLeod & Gregory Scofield
cover design or artwork by Dana Claxton

The Flying Years

by (author) Frederick Niven
afterword by Alison Calder

Laurier Poetry Pack #3

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

edited by Robert Budde, Alison Calder, Louise H. Forsyth, Catherine Hunter, Susan Knutson, Tanis MacDonald, Nicole Markotic, Laura Moss, Owen Percy & Leslie C. Sanders

In the Tiger Park

by (author) Alison Calder

Laurier Poetry Pack #2

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

edited by Catherine Hunter, Meira Cook, Robert Budde, Tanis MacDonald, Alison Calder, Nicole Markotic, Leslie C. Sanders, Louise H. Forsyth, Louis Cabri & Laura Moss

Desire Never Leaves

The Poetry of Tim Lilburn

edited by Alison Calder
by (author) Tim Lilburn

Wolf Tree

by (author) Alison Calder

History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

edited by Alison Calder & Robert Wardhaugh