Soraya Peerbaye is a Canadian writer."Pulled punches". The Globe and Mail, January 30, 2001. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2010 for her poetry collection Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names,"Soraya Peerbaye". Asian Heritage in Canada (Ryerson University Library and Archives). and for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016 for Tell: poems for a girlhood."2016 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announced". CBC Books, April 11, 2016.
She was born in London, Ontario to Indo-Mauritian immigrant parents from Mauritius. She was educated at York University and the University of Guelph, and is currently based in Toronto.
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