Tiana Reid, an assistant professor in the Department of English, has been shortlisted alongside two other authors for the Writers' Trust of Canada's $12,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ emerging writers. Reid was nominated for her newly published poetry collection, Nightnursing (Goose Lane Editions, 2026). The annual award goes to the author of a debut book of any genre who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit or another part of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Tiana Reid's writing has appeared in Aperture, Bookforum, Dissent, Frieze, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Poets.org and The Yale Review, among other publications. She earned a PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University and is co-editor of Pinko magazine.
The winner of the prize will be announced on Nov. 10 at the Writer's Trust Awards.
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