Sina Queyras

Sina Queyras (born 1963) is a Canadian poet.

Life
In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press. She later edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for Drunken Boat, where she is a contributing editor. From 2005 to 2007 Queyras co-curated the belladonna* reading series in New York. Her most recent work, Expressway, was written mainly in Calgary, while she was serving as Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies including Joyland: A hub for short fiction. She teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, and has taught at Haverford College and Rutgers University.

Recognition
Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award.

Poetry

 * Someone from the Hollow. 1995.
 * SlipSlip. ECW, 2001.
 * Teethmarks. Nightwood, 2004.
 * Lemon Hound. 2006.
 * Expressway. Coach House, 2009.

Novel

 * Autobiography of Childhood, Coach House, 2011.

Essays

 * Unleashed. Book Thug, 2010.

Edited

 * Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets. Persea Books, 2005.