Nationality Canadian Genre novels, non-fiction | Period 1990s-present | |
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Notable works One Hundred Days of Rain Nominations Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies Books One Hundred Days of R, Every Inch a Woman: Phallic P, Fresh Hell: Motherhood in Pieces, Wreck Beach | ||
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Carellin Brooks is a Canadian writer, who won the Edmund White Award in 2016 for her debut novel One Hundred Days of Rain.
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Background
Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, After a tumultuous childhood, Brooks became a ward of the state. Placed with loving foster parents, she lived in Salt Lake City, Utah until age 14, when she ran away from her foster home and moved to Ottawa, Ontario to live with her grandmother. She completed high school in Ottawa, and was a regular columnist for the Ottawa Sun.
After high school, she studied English and anthropology at McGill University in Montreal. While at McGill, she won the national Book City/Books in Canada Student Writing Award for poetry in 1992 and hosted a weekly radio show, Dykes on Mikes, on CKUT-FM.
She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1993, and was reported at the time as the first person ever to have won a Rhodes scholarship while having been out as lesbian on her application. After completing her studies at Oxford University, she returned to Vancouver, becoming a columnist for Xtra West and a book reviewer for the Vancouver Sun. She later became managing editor of the Vancouver-based publishing company New Star Books, and is a writing instructor at the University of British Columbia.
Writing
She has published the non-fiction books Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text (2005), Wreck Beach (2007) and Fresh Hell: Motherhood in Pieces (2013), and edited the anthologies Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong’s Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace (1998) on her own and Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions (2000) as coeditor with Brett Josef Grubisic.
In addition to her Edmund White Award win, Every Inch a Woman was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee in the LGBT studies category at the 19th Lambda Literary Awards in 2007.