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Canisia Lubrin

Poet • Writer • Scholar

Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor. The author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Bright Machine (2026), and The World After Rain (2025), Lubrin is the recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, among other distinctions. She was born in St. Lucia and lives in Whitby.

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