Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand CM FRSC (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and first Black Poet Laureate. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017 and has won the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Trillium Prize for Literature, the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, the Harbourfront Writers' Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. Brand currently resides in Toronto.
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| Born | 7 January 1953 Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Occupation | poet |
| Education | University of Toronto (BA) Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (MA) |
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