Gay Allison | |
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| Born | 1953 Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, Editor, English Teacher |
Gay Allison (born 1953) is a Canadian poet, editor, and English teacher. She was the fiction editor of The Canadian Forum, poetry editor of Waves, founding editor of a feminist journal, Fireweed,[1] co-editor of Landscape,[2] and founding member of the Women's Writing Collective of Toronto. Additionally, Allison is an advisory board member of Tiger Lily, a journal by women of colour. Allison is also a full member of the League of Canadian Poets.[3]
She was the recipient of the Poetry Award from the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario (FWTAO) in 1982 and 1986.[4]
- ^ Butling, Pauline; Rudy, Susan (2009). Writing In Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9780889205277.
- ^ Allison, Gay; Hood-Caddy, Karen; Rapoport, Janis (1977). Landscape. Toronto: Women's Writing Collective. ISBN 9780969068006.
- ^ "Why The Poet Writes" (PDF). Centre For Women's Studies in Education. University of Toronto. 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ "Membee – Directory — Poets.ca". poets.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-04-15. Retrieved 2016-02-22.