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Tawhida
Tanya Evanson is
a poet, author, artist and producer from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Her two poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis
2017) and Nouveau
Griot (Frontenac
2018). Her debut novel Book
of Wings (Véhicule
2021) won the 2022
New Contribution Literary Prize,
was on the 2022 CBC
Canada Reads Longlist and
one of Quill
& Quire’s
2021 Books
of the Year.
With a 25-year practice in spoken word, she has performed in
over a dozen countries and released several studio albums and
videopoems including the award-winning
Almost Forgot my Bones. In 2013, she was Poet of
Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and received
the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre.
Director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word program and VP of The
Quebec Writers’ Federation, she is at work on an
Afrofuturist long videopoem premiering in spring 2023
entitled Cyano Sun Suite and the French translation of
her novel. She moonlights as a whirling dervish. |
