Canisia Lubrin

CANISIA LUBRIN’s books include Voodoo Hypothesis, The Dyzgraphxst, and Code Noir, which won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Lubrin’s work has also been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and others. She studied at York University and the University of Guelph, where she now coordinates the Creative Writing MFA in the School of English & Theatre Studies. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, and is the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart. She was the Guest Curator of the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest.