Occupation Poet Genre poetry, essay, fiction Role Poet | Nationality Canadian/American Name Rachel Rose | |
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Notable works Notes on Arrival and Departure Books Song and Spectacle, Giving my body to science, Notes on arrival and departure, The Animal Within | ||
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Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, Notes on Arrival and Departure, and Song and Spectacle. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
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In 2011, Rachel and composer Leslie Uyeda were commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver to write the libretto for Canada’s first lesbian opera, When The Sun Comes Out, which premiered in August 2013 in Vancouver and in Toronto in June 2014.
In 2014, Rachel was named Vancouver's Poet Laureate, for a term running through to 2017.
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Personal life
She grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), and in Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle. In the mid-1990s, Rachel lived and worked in Japan for a year. She has worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher, freelance writer, and as the poetry and lyric prose mentor in The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. She lives with her partner, Isabelle, and three children, Ben, Gaby and Thomas in Vancouver.