VIRTUAL LAUNCH | mRb Spring Issue Launch

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Join the virtual launch of the Montreal Review of Books spring issue, mRb 64. This event is free to attend and it will be transcribed live. Brief instructions on how to access the live transcript will be provided at the event. The event will feature three readings by authors features in the issue, followed by an author Q&A session.

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Tawhida Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Québecoise poet, author, and artist from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She has published six artist books and two poetry collections. Her first novel, Book of Wings (2021), is freshly out from Véhicule Press, and she has recent work in The Fiddlehead, UPPERCASE, and Changing the Face of Canadian Literature (a Guernica editions anthology). With a 25-year spoken word practice, she has performed at literary and arts festivals in over a dozen countries, and released four studio albums and six video-poems. 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. She is program director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word Residency, sits on the board of directors for the Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF), and produces interarts events. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.

Linda Leith's most recent book is the memoir The Girl from Dream City: A Literary Life (University of Regina Press, 2021). The author of three novels and three others works of literary non-fiction, she is the founder of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, which she directed for its first fourteen years, and of Linda Leith Publishing-Linda Leith Éditions. She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in November 2020.

stephanie roberts is the Quebec-based, Black-Latinx author of rushes from the river disappointment (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020), an A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry book finalist. Her work has been widely featured, or is forthcoming, in Poetry, The League of Canadian Poets, EVENT Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, Verse Daily, CV2, Room, New York Quarterly Books, and elsewhere. Winner of Black Mountain Press's The Sixty-Four: Best Poets 2018, she was born in Panama.