Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian who lives in Toronto. She was the city's third poet laureate, from 2009 to 2012, and its first Black poet laureate. Her fiction includes A Map to the Door of No Return, At the Full and Change of the Moon, In Another Place, Not Here, and What We All Long For, and her poetry has won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry. Brand was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017.