Di Brandt
Canadian poet and scholar (born 1952)
Di Brandt (née Janzen; 31 January 1952) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018.
Life and career
Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farming village in southern Manitoba near Winkler. Her first volume of poetry questions i asked my mother was published by Turnstone Press in 1987. Since then she has published seven more volumes of poetry, as well as literary criticism. Brandt earned a Bachelor of Theology from the Canadian Mennonite Bible College in 1972. In 1975, she earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Manitoba before going on to earn a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1976. She earned her PhD in Canadian literature from the University of Manitoba in 1993, and has also taught Canadian literature and creative writing. She was poetry editor at Prairie Fire Magazine and Contemporary Verse 2 during the 1980s and 1990s. She also served as Manitoba and Prairie Rep at the League of Canadian Poets National Council and the Writers' Union of Canada National Council.
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