Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Archna Sahni
Jennifer Hosein
BIO
Biography
Jennifer Hosein is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-born writer, visual artist and educator of Trinidadian and South Asian ancestry residing in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, A Map of Rain Days, published by Guernica Editions in 2020, was longlisted for the League of Canadian Poets 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her poems, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and a play have been published in The Fiddlehead, The Quarantine Review, Event, Rubicon, Makara, as well as translated into Hungarian for the anthology Crystal Garden/Kristálykert. Her artwork has appeared on book covers, in magazines, and in solo and group exhibitions in Toronto; it is also featured on the cover of A Map of Rain Days.
ADDRESS
City: Toronto,
Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
jennifer.hosein@bell.net
GENRE
poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
A Map of Rain Days
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2020
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