Alexandra Oliver.

TWH 2025: Major Poetry Workshop, Poetry Craft Lab, Faculty Reading

Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. Her latest book, Hail, The Invisible Watchman came out in 2022 from Biblioasis. collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway was the recipient of the 2014 Pat Lowther Memorial Award; Let the Empire Down, was shortlisted for the same in 2017. Her libretto for From the Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, conceived in conjunction with composer Scott Wilson at the University of Birmingham, was performed by Continuum Music in Toronto in December, 2017. Oliver is a past co-editor of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters  (Everyman's Library/Random House, 2015). She also co-edited with the Toronto-based formalist journal The Rotary Dial with Pino Coluccio. She earned a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University.  Oliver's most recent chapbook, On the Oven Sits a Maiden, is available through Frog Hollow Press.