Her second collection Tell: poems for a girlhood was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2016). Peerbaye's first collection, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2009) was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. in Creative Writing from Guelph University. in Theatre Studies from York University, and an M.F.A. Her work has also appeared in Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Women Poets (2004), edited by Priscila Uppal and Rishma Dunlop, Other Voices, Prairie Fire and The New Quarterly.
It explores how connections among art, science and environment can enlighten and inform who we are.Soraya Peerbaye holds a B.A. U of G professor Madhur Anand was also a finalist for the award for her debut collection of poems, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, published in 2015. The Trillium Book Awards, considered among Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes, were established by the provincial government in 1987 to recognize Ontario writers and writing. The poems examine the poet’s remembrances of girlhood, the unease of adolescence and the circumstances that enable some to pass through unhurt. The 1997 murder made international headlines, due in part to the viciousness employed by Virk’s assailants: seven girls and one boy aged 13 to 16, five of whom were white. Her collection is partially based on the Reena Virk murder case. Peerbaye’s Tell: poems for a girlhood was also a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize earlier this month.
Soraya Peerbaye, a 2010 graduate of U of G’s creative writing master of fine arts (MFA) program, was awarded the $10,000 prize Wednesday night.
A University of Guelph graduate has won this year’s prestigious English-language Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
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