Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to Black women. She was born in Trinidad in 1953 and came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. She is an active fighter for the rights of margialized communities, especially blacks and women. Works: Fore Day Morning - 1978 Earth Magic - 1979 Primitive Offensive - 1982 Winter Epigrams - 1983 Chronicles of the Hostile Sun - 1984 Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism - 1986 Sans Souci and Other Stories - 1988 No Language is Neutral - 1990 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award) No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s - 1991 Bread Out of Stone - 1994 In Another Place, Not Here - 1996 Land to Light On - 1997 (Won the 1997 Governor General's Award for poetry) thirsty - 2003 (nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.