Welcome
We are delighted to welcome Rishma Dunlop as our new poet in residence for the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education. Rishma is the third poet to take on the responsibility and position of poet in residence.
Winner of the Emily Dickinson Prize for poetry in 2003, Rishma Dunlop is the author of three books of poetry: The Body of My Garden, Reading Like a Girl, and Metropolis. She is co-editor of Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets and editor of the forthcoming anthology White Ink. Her radio drama, The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby, was commissioned and produced by CBC Radio and published in Where is here? The Drama of Immigration.
Rishma Dunlop is a professor of literary studies, creative writing, and education at York University, Toronto. She is the founding editor of Studio poetry journal, a collaborative venture with the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education, University of British Columbia and the Faculty of Education, York University.
Rishma Dunlop
