M. NourbeSe Philip
M. NOURBESE PHILIP is a poet, essayist, novelist and playwright who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto. She practised law in the City of Toronto for seven years before leaving to write fulltime. She has published four books of poetry, one novel and three collections of essays. She was awarded a Pushcart Prize (USA) in 1981, the Casa de las Americas Prize (Cuba) in 1988, the Tradewinds Collective Prize in 1988 and was made a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry (USA) in 1990. In 1994 she was awarded the Lawrence Foundation Prize (USA) for short fiction and her work was recognized in 1995 by the Arts Foundation of Toronto by its Writing and Publishing Award. In 1999 her play Coups and Calypsos was a Dora Award finalist. She recently completed a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation,Bellagio, Italy.
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