Alison Calder

Alison Calder is a poet and scholar based in Winnipeg, where she teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba. Calder is the author of three poetry collections and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Award. In 2004, she won the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers – Poetry; in 2002, she was also a finalist in the same category. Calder has edited critical editions of works by Frederick Philip Grove, as well as Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn.