Roo Borson

ROO BORSON is the author of ten books of poetry, including Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida , which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She has also been involved in a number of collaborative projects, including Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei , by Pain Not Bread (Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, and Andy Patton). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, such as Twentieth Century Poetry and Poetics ,...See more

ROO BORSON is the author of ten books of poetry, including Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida , which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She has also been involved in a number of collaborative projects, including Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei , by Pain Not Bread (Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, and Andy Patton). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, such as Twentieth Century Poetry and Poetics , the Harbrace Anthology of Poetry , and the Norton Introduction to Literature . Roo Borson lives in Toronto with poet and collaborator Kim Maltman. Baziju are currently at work on a new manuscript project called Short Moral Tales . See less