Rachel Rose Explained

Rachel Rose
Birth Date:	September 20, 1970
Birth Place:	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	Canadian/American
Genre:	Poetry, essay, fiction
Notableworks:	Notes on Arrival and Departure

Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, Notes on Arrival and Departure, and Song and Spectacle. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.

In 2011, Rose and composer Leslie Uyeda were commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver to write the libretto for Canada's first lesbian opera, When The Sun Comes Out, which premiered in August 2013 in Vancouver and in Toronto in June 2014.^[1]

Rose was Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2017.^[1]

Rose's short story collection The Octopus has Three Hearts was nominated for the 2021 Giller Prize.

Personal life

Rose grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle.^[2] In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She has worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher, and as the poetry mentor in the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University.^[2] In 2015 she was a resident in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.^[3]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Giving My Body to Science (1999), McGill-Queen's University Press
• Notes on Arrival and Departure (2005), McClelland & Stewart
• Song and Spectacle (2012), Harbour Publishing
• Marry & Burn (2015), Harbour Publishing

Essays

• "Creating Benjamin", Prairie Fire, Volume 22, No. 4 (Winter 2001)
• "Letters to a Young Mother Who Writes" (in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, edited by Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam and Cathy Stonehouse, 2008, McGill/Queens University Press)
• "A Tale of Two Mommies" (in Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood, edited by Cori Howard, 2009, Key Porter Books)

Short stories

• "Sundays" (in Hot & Bothered, edited by Aren X. Tulchinsky, 1998, Arsenal Pulp Press)
• "Want", This Magazine, May/June 1999
• "The Glass Eye", The Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol 24, No. 3&4 (Fall and Winter 2007)

Anthologies

• Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association (1998), Ten Speed Press
• In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005), Polestar
• White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007), York University
• Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv (2008), Red Hen Press
• Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (2009), Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Operas

• When The Sun Comes Out (2013)

Books

• The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World's K-9 Cops (2017), St Martin's Press
• The Octopus has Three Hearts (2021), Douglas & McIntyre

Awards and prizes

Awards for Rose's writing!Year!Title!Award!Result!Ref.

1997		Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction	Winner	^[4]
2000	Giving My Body to Science	Pat Lowther Memorial Award	Finalist	^[5]
2000	Giving My Body to Science	Gerald Lampert Award	Finalist
2000		Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal	Finalist
2000	Giving My Body to Science	Quebec Writers Federation A.M. Klein Award	Winner	^[6]
2013	Song and Spectacle		Winner	^[7]
2013	Song and Spectacle	Pat Lowther Memorial Award	Winner	^[8]
2016	Marry & Burn	Pat Lowther Memorial Award	Finalist
2016	Marry & Burn	Governor General's Award for English-Language Poetry	Finalist
2021	The Octopus Has Three Hearts	Giller Prize	Longlist	^[9]

External links

• Rachel Rose personal website
• Official site of Vancouver's Poet Laureate

Notes and References

1. Web site: City of Vancouver webpage . 2014-12-31 . 2019-04-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190401182109/https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/vancouvers-poet-laureate.aspx . live .
2. Email from Rose, dated August 28, 2010
3. Micro-interview with Rachel Rose, The Writing University, University of Iowa, http://www.writinguniversity.org/blog/micro-interview-with-rachel-rose
4. "Quebec writer wins development award: Prize honours poet Bronwen Wallace". Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 1997.
5. "The lists are in: Prizes, prizes and more prizes". Vancouver Sun, April 8, 2000.
6. "Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards: Distinct-society analysis gets two English-language book prizes". Montreal Gazette, December 1, 2000.
7. Web site: Bookey . Seth J. . 2013-05-08 . Going for the Silver – Gay City News . 2023-03-15 . . en-US . 2022-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220205161648/https://gaycitynews.com/going-for-the-silver/ . live .
8. http://www.harbourpublishing.com/news/764 Rachel Rose Wins the Pat Lowther Memorial Award
9. Web site: 2021-10-01 . Miriam Toews, Omar El Akkad & Katherena Vermette among 12 authors longlisted for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize . live . 2023-03-14 . . 2022-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221210192427/https://www.cbc.ca/books/miriam-toews-omar-el-akkad-katherena-vermette-among-12-authors-longlisted-for-100k-scotiabank-giller-prize-1.6166969 .