Alexandra Oliver Explained

Alexandra Oliver
Birth Name:Alexandra Edith Amelia Oliver
Birth Place:Vancouver
Occupation:Poet
Period:1990s-present
Nationality:Canadian
Notableworks:Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
Spouse:Dragan Basekic

Alexandra Oliver (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.[1] [2]

A graduate of the University of Toronto, the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and McMaster University, from which she earned a PhD in English in 2022, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[3] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2014/06/09/anne-compton-alexandra-oliver-murray-reiss-win-league-of-canadian-poets-awards/ "Anne Compton, Alexandra Oliver, Murray Reiss win League of Canadian Poets awards"
  2. https://thewalrus.ca/the-outlier/ "The Outlier"
  3. "Hot Shots of '93: They're young and they're dazzling". Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
  4. http://news.nationalpost.com/afterword/michael-lista-on-poetry-meeting-the-tormentors-in-safeway-by-alexandra-oliver "Michael Lista, On Poetry: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, by Alexandra Oliver"
  5. https://english.humanities.mcmaster.ca/people/alexandra-basekic/ Alexandra Basekic
  6. http://arcpoetry.ca/2017/05/14/measured-pleasures-alexandra-olivers-let-the-empire-down/ "Measured Pleasures: Alexandra Oliver's Let the Empire Down"
  7. https://www.cbc.ca/books/hail-the-invisible-watchman-1.6313326 Hail, the Invisible Watchman