Di Brandt's acclaimed poetry collections include (among others) questions i asked my mother; Agnes in the sky; Now You Care; Walking to Mojacar (with French and Spanish translations by Charles Leblanc and Ari Belathar); Glitter & fall: Laozi's Dao De Jing, Transinhalations;  and The Sweetest Dance on Earth: New and Selected Poems.  Her non-fiction includes the essay collection, So this is the world & here I am in it, and Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry, edited with Barbara Godard.  

Awards and recognitions include (among numerous others) the Gerald Lampert Award for "best first book of poetry in Canada," the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award, the CAA National Poetry Prize, the Gabrielle Roy Prize for "best book of literary criticism in Canada" (with Barbara Godard), and nominations for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book of the Year Award, the Pat Lowther Award and the Governor General's Award for Poetry (twice), and an honorary Doctorate of the University from Grant MacEwan University. 

Di Brandt has been credited with influencing many significant new directions in literary creation and attention in Canada and internationally, such as contemporary prairie poetics, new Mennonite literary creation and cultural life, maternal narrative, multicultural approaches to literary appreciation, and the contribution of women writers to literary modernism and contemporary ecopoetic writing in Canada. 

Di Brandt has taught Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at several Canadian universities, and has given literary readings, lectures and creative writing workshops across Canada and around the world.  She currently lives in Winnipeg where she has recently served as the city's inaugural Poet Laureate, and recipient of the Manitoba Distinction in the Arts Award.  She is proud to be a longtime TWUC member.