Rhea Tregebov | Mapping the Chaos

October 18th, 2008

Rhea Tregebov – Mapping the Chaos

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For Tregebov, writing is mapping — tracing the outlines of what is there with humour, wonder, bemusement, and great clarity.

“Perhaps there is a beauty in the logic of mapping; or perhaps the beauty lies in the chaos. The most interesting art performs a simultaneous imposition of order and a resistance to it. This is what Tregebov’s book achieves.” – Prairie Fire

Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon, raised in Winnipeg and lived for many years in Toronto. Her sixth book of poetry, a volume of selected and new poems entitled (alive), was released by Wolsak and Wynn in September 2004. Tregebov has also published five children’s picture books, including The Big Storm, and is the editor of nine anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction for a number of presses, most recently Gifts: Poems for Parents. She edited and assisted in the translation of a tenth anthology, Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers, which is forthcoming in Spring 2007. She is also currently working on her first novel.

Tregebov received Honorable Mention for the National Magazine Awards (poetry) in 1998. She is a co-winner of the Malahat Review Long Poem Competition in 1994 and received the Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry from Prairie Schooner in 1993. Her first collection of poetry won the Pat Lowther Award in 1983. For many years she taught Creative Writing for Ryerson Continuing Education and worked as a freelance editor of adult and young adult fiction as well as poetry. From 2002 to 2004, she was Coordinating Editor for Sumach Press. In January of 2005, she began work as Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at UBC teaching poetry and translation.

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