Troy Lecture: Dionne Brand

The Troy Lecture committee is delighted to announce that distinguished poet, novelist, essayist (and more) Dionne Brand will deliver the next Troy Lecture, on April 16, 2025.

Dionne Brand is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her latest poetry collection, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Her other collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include Bread Out of Stone, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging and most recently, Salvage. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto’s poet laureate, and in 2021 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She lives in Toronto.

For more information, contact Rachel Mordecai (Troy committee chair): @email.