Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to Black women. She was born in Trinidad in 1953 and came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. She is an active fighter for the rights of margialized communities, especially blacks and women.

Works:

• Fore Day Morning - 1978
• Earth Magic - 1979
• Primitive Offensive - 1982
• Winter Epigrams - 1983
• Chronicles of the Hostile Sun - 1984
• Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism - 1986
• Sans Souci and Other Stories - 1988
• No Language is Neutral - 1990 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s - 1991
• Bread Out of Stone - 1994
• In Another Place, Not Here - 1996
• Land to Light On - 1997 (Won the 1997 Governor General's Award for poetry)
• thirsty - 2003 (nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize)