Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, Notes on Arrival and Departure, and Song and Spectacle. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
In 2011, Rose and composer Leslie Uyeda were commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver to write the libretto for Canada's first lesbian opera, When The Sun Comes Out, which premiered in August 2013 in Vancouver and in Toronto in June 2014.
Rose was Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2017.
Rose's short story collection The Octopus has Three Hearts was nominated for the 2021 Giller Prize.
Personal life Rose grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle.Email from Rose, dated August 28, 2010 In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She has worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher, and as the poetry mentor in the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. In 2015, she was a resident in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa."Micro-interview with Rachel Ros", The Writing University, University of Iowa.
Bibliography
Poetry Giving My Body to Science (1999), McGill-Queen's University Press Notes on Arrival and Departure (2005), McClelland & Stewart Song and Spectacle (2012), Harbour Publishing Marry & Burn (2015), Harbour Publishing
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 Books)
Short stories "Sundays" (in Hot & Bothered, edited by Aren X. Tulchinsky, 1998, Arsenal Pulp Press) "Want", This Magazine, May/June 1999 "The Glass Eye", The Alaska Quarterly Review, 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
Operas When The Sun Comes Out (2013)
Books The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World's K-9 Cops (2017), St Martin's Press The Octopus has Three Hearts (2021), Douglas & McIntyre
Awards and prizes +Awards for Rose's writingYearTitleAwardResultRef.1997Bronwen Wallace Award for Short FictionWinner"Quebec writer wins development award: Prize honours poet Bronwen Wallace". Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 1997.2000Giving My Body to SciencePat Lowther Memorial AwardFinalist"The lists are in: Prizes, prizes and more prizes". Vancouver Sun, April 8, 2000.2000Giving My Body to ScienceGerald Lampert AwardFinalist2000Grand Prix du Livre de MontrealFinalist2000Giving My Body to ScienceQuebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein AwardWinner"Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards: Distinct-society analysis gets two English-language book prizes". Montreal Gazette, December 1, 2000.2013Song and SpectacleAudre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry Winner2013Song and SpectaclePat Lowther Memorial AwardWinnerRachel Rose Wins the Pat Lowther Memorial Award .2016Marry & BurnPat Lowther Memorial AwardFinalist2016Marry & BurnGovernor General's Award for English-Language PoetryFinalist2021The Octopus Has Three HeartsGiller PrizeLonglist
References
External links
Rachel Rose personal website Official site of Vancouver's Poet Laureate