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]

Bibliography

• Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013)^[4]
• Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, co-editor with Annie Finch (2015)^[5]
• Let the Empire Down (2016)^[6]
• On the Oven Sits a Maiden (chapbook) (2018)^[5]
• Hail the Invisible Watchman (2022)^[7]

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