Margaret Christakos

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Margaret Christakos
Christakos at the Kelly Writers House in 2016
Christakos at the Kelly Writers House in 2016
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
OccupationPoet
EducationYork University (BFA)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Website
www.margaretchristakos.com

Margaret Christakos (born 1962 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.

Life

Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She is a Canadian poet, fiction author, literary essayist and creative writing instructor. Since 1989, she has published ten collections of poetry, a novel, an intergenre memoir including photography, numerous chapbooks and has appeared in a diverse range of literary journals and anthologies. Christakos received her B.F.A. in Visual Arts from

The University of Toronto
School of Continuing Studies. From 2006 to 2011 she taught poetry and creative writing courses as well as designed and ran the poetry course Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon. She was Publishing Editor of the online poetics magazine Influencysalon.ca. She is Associate Faculty with the Creative Writing MFA at University of Guelph-Humber. In 2016-2017 she was Canada Council Writer in Residence at Western University (London, Ontario). In 2017-2018 she was Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta. In the 2018-2019 academic year she is Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto's University College.

She identifies as

bisexual.[1]

Work

Many writers have influenced Christakos' appreciation of literature. She has mentioned Nicole Brossard, Marguerite Duras, Daphne Marlatt, Erín Moure, and Kathy Acker, among others.[2]

Christakos writes about the fluid and intersecting lines of

motherhood in her work. She has shown an interest in recombinant poetics as well as in autobiography's formal and social concerns.[3]

Selected bibliography

See also

References

  1. ^ "More Orange: Margaret Christakos's Her Paraphernalia". The Town Crier, June 1, 2016.
  2. ^ "Margaret Christakos." Writers in Electronic Residence Archived 2007-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Who's Who." The League of Canadian Poets Archived 2007-08-14 at the Wayback Machine

Sources

  • "The Mansfield Press--Margaret Christakos." The Mansfield Press Website
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  • Gregory Betts ed.:Space Between Her Lips. The Poetry of Margaret Christakos. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017

External links

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