Nicole Markotic Explained

Occupation:	Novelist, poet
Nationality:	Canadian
Education:	University of Manitoba (MA) University of Calgary (PhD)

Nicole Markotić is a Canadian poet^[1] and novelist who lives in Windsor, Ontario. She teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor.^[2] Markotic specializes in the subjects of Canadian literature, poetry, children's literature, disability in film and disability in literature. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. She was the co-editor, along with Ashok Mathur, of Calgary-based DisOrientation Chapbooks. She was also the poetry editor of Red Deer College Press from 1998 to 2004.^[3]

She co-edited The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film a critical book about disability in film, which was published by Ohio State Press in 2010.^[4] She also edited Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works, which was released in 2017.^[5]

Bibliography

• connect the dots – 1994
• Yellow Pages: a catalogue of intentions – 1995
• more excess – 1997
• minotaurs & other alphabets – 1998
• Widows and Orphans – 2004
• Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot – 2008
• Bent at the Spine – 2012
• "Rough Patch" – 2017
• After Beowulf - 2022

Awards

• bpNichol Chapbook Award (minotaurs & other alphabets, 1998)^[6]

Notes and References

1. Book: Calder. Alison. History, literature, and the writing of the Canadian Prairies. 2005. University of Manitoba Press. Winnipeg. 978-0-88755-682-1. Wardhaugh, Robert . 25 January 2011. 236.
2. Web site: Dr. Nicole Markotić. 7 March 2015. University of Windsor. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402162051/http://www1.uwindsor.ca/english/dr-nicole-markotic-0. 2 April 2015. dead.
3. Book: Butling, Pauline. Writing in our time: Canada's radical poetries in English (1957–2003). limited. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2005. 0889204306. Waterloo, ON. 12.
4. Book: Chivers. Sally. Markotic. Nicole. The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film. 2010. Ohio State University Press. Columbus, OH. 1811/45266. 9780814211243 .
5. Web site: Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works . Guernica Editions . 31 March 2017.
6. McGoogan,Ken. "Markotic wins chapbook award." Calgary Herald. 11 July 1998: 17.