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Di Brandt, 2023 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction

Manitoba Arts Council is pleased to announce that Di Brandt is the winner of the 2023 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction! Di Brandt is a poet, essayist, educator, editor, and fiction-writer based in Winnipeg. She has authored thirteen poetry and essay collections and countless publications in anthologies and magazines both national and international. She has served as poetry editor for Manitoba-based magazines Prairie Fire and Contemporary Verse 2 and was selected as Winnipeg’s inaugural Poet Laureate for 2018-2020. Among her many accomplishments, Di was awarded the Gold National Magazine Award for Poetry for 2020. In 2021, she received an Honorary Doctorate of the University from Grant McEwen University.

by Kerry Clare