Cornelia Hoogland



Cornelia Hoogland is a Canadian poet and academic.

Life
Hoogland grew up on densely wooded Vancouver Island, B.C.. She is currently a professor at the University of Western Ontario and lives in London, Ontario.

Hoogland is the founder and the co-artistic director of Poetry London (www.poetrylondon.ca), an organization that brings prominent writers into lively discussion with London writers and readers. Hoogland divides her time between London, ON., and Hornby Island, B.C.

Besides her work as a professor, Hoogland has performed and worked internationally in the areas of drama and poetry.

Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) is Hoogland’s 5th book of poetry, and is based on the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood. Crow (Black Moss Press, 2011), released a month after Woods Wolf Girl, is Hoogland’s 6th book. Her newest selection, a chapbook titled Gravelly Bay (Alfred Gustav Press, 2012), is forthcoming. Her writing in the area of Aboriginal, place-based education was recently featured in the Huffington Post.

Influences in Drama-Art Theatre
“Faim de Loup” is based on the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood, also the subject of Hoogland’s “Woods Wolf Girl.” At the time of this writing Faim de Loup being dramaturged by Gil Garret and Susan Ferley at the Grand Theatre in London ON, in preparation for a staged reading in January, 2012. Hoogland’s play, “Country of my Skin” won the Adjudicators Choice Award at the London One-Act Festival in 2004, Lesleigh Turner, Director. Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 “Country” travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia to the Women Playwright’s International conference. Her published play for children – “Salmonberry: A West Coast Fairy Tale" (International Plays for Young Audiences, Meriwether, 2000) – was performed at the 1999 International Women Playwrights Conference in Athens. Cornelia Hoogland has performed, lectured, and worked internationally (Cuba, Brazil, U.S. and England) in the areas of poetry and theatre.

Recognition
Hoogland’s poetry has been shortlisted for the CBC literary awards; the nominations include selections from her books Cuba Journal as well as her second and third books of poetry You Are Home and Marrying the Animals. Her recent awards include finalist placements for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Award, The Broome Review (USA); the Malahat Review Long Poem Competition; and Descant’s Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem.