Proma Tagore | |
Birth Place: | Kolkata, India |
Occupation: | poet, editor |
Period: | 2000s-present |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Notableworks: | language is not the only thing that breaks |
Proma Tagore is a Canadian poet and editor, who was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.[1]
Born in Kolkata, India, Tagore emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of four.[2] She resides in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.[2]
She has published a poetry collection, language is not the only thing that breaks, and a non-fiction work of literary analysis, The Shapes of Silence: Writing by Women of Colour and the Politics of Testimony. She was also editor of In Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisation, an anthology of essays by students and educators on the subject of racial discrimination and decolonization.