Laisha Rosnau

Laisha Rosnau is the author of four collections of poetry and two novels. Rosnau’s first collection of poetry, Notes on Leaving (Nightwood, 2004), won the 2005 Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award. Her second, Lousy Explorers (Nightwood, 2009), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Pluck (Nightwood, 2014), was nominated for the national Raymond Souster Award. Her most recent collection Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood, 2018) won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award (BC Book Prize) and the Kobzar Book Award. Rosnau is also the winner of the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize for a Canadian poet in mid-career who has demonstrated mastery of the art of poetry. Rosnau is the Executive Director of the Caetani Cultural Centre and teaches fiction and poetry at UBC Okanagan. She and her family are the resident caretakers of Bishop Wild Bird Sanctuary in Coldstream, BC.