Canisia Lubrin Author

Canisia Lubrin’s poetry books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and others. Lubrin has held fellowships at the Banff Centre, Simon Fraser University, Literature Colloquium Berlin, and studied at York University and the University of Guelph, where she now coordinates the Creative Writing MFA in the School of English & Theatre Studies.

In 2021, Lubrin received a Windham-Campbell prize for poetry, and the Globe & Mail named her Poet of the Year. Code Noir: Metamorphoses is her debut fiction. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, and is poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart.