Rishma Dunlop
Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. She is the author of three acclaimed books of poetry, Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005), Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004), and The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002). Books as editor include: White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press, 2007) and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press, 2004). She received the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, and her radio drama, “The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby,” was commissioned and produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Her poems have won numerous awards and have appeared in journals including Blackbird, Canadian Literature, Descant, Event, Grain, Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Room of One’s Own, and The Comstock Review. She is editor of Studio, an online international poetry journal, and literary editor of the Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering. Rishma Dunlop was born in India and raised in Beaconsfield, Quebec,Canada.She is a professor in the Department of English at York University, Toronto, where she is Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program in English.