About Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and documentary filmmaker. She served as Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012. She was awarded the Order of Canada in 2017 and has won numerous other prestigious awards. His first book, Fore Day Morning: Poems, was published in 1978. Since then, Brand has published numerous works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, as well as anthologies, and has worked on documentary films with the National Film Board of Canada. In 2017, she was appointed poetry editor of McClelland & Stewart, a publishing division of Penguin Random House Canada. Brand is also co-editor of the Toronto-based literary journal Brick.She has contributed to numerous anthologies, contrasting the violent murders of Black men and women and the massacre of 14 women in Montreal with the racism and inequality experienced by Indigenous women in Canada, including the death of Helen Betty Osborne in The Pas, Manitoba, Canada. Brand est aussi une militante sociale. Elle est fondatrice du journal Our Lives, ancienne présidente du Comité des questions féminines de la Coalition des syndicalistes noirs de l'Ontario et travaille avec des organisations d'immigrants de Toronto.
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