Gwen Benaway
Gwen Benaway is a Canadian First Nations poet,[1] most noted for receiving an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers in 2016.[2]
She has published two poetry collections to date, Ceremonies for the Dead (2013)[3] and Passage (2016),[4] with her third collection slated for publication in 2018. She won Prism International's Creative Non-Fiction contest in 2017 for her piece "Between a Rock and a Hard Place".[5]
References
- ↑ "'Peeling bark off a birch tree': Indigenous teaching helps Gwen Benaway through her sex reassignment surgery". Unreserved, February 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Vancouver poet Leah Horlick wins 2016 LGBT literary award". The Georgia Straight, June 10, 2016.
- ↑ "Six Indigenous writers to watch". CBC Books, July 9, 2017.
- ↑ "Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s This Accident of Being Lost and Gwen Benaway’s passage, reviewed: Multiple realms". The Globe and Mail, March 31, 2017.
- ↑ "The 2017 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Winners". Prism International, October 5, 2017.
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