Proma Tagore

Canadian poet and editor

Proma Tagore
Born	Kolkata, India
Occupation	poet, editor
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2000s-present
Notable works	language is not the only thing that breaks

Proma Tagore is a Canadian poet and editor, who was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.^[1]

Born in Kolkata, India, Tagore emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of four.^[2] She resides in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.^[2]

She has published a poetry collection, language is not the only thing that breaks, and a non-fiction work of literary analysis, The Shapes of Silence: Writing by Women of Colour and the Politics of Testimony.^[1] She was also editor of In Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisation, an anthology of essays by students and educators on the subject of racial discrimination and decolonization.^[1]

Works

In Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisation (Larkuma Press, 2006. ISBN 0-9733821-2-0)
The Shapes of Silence: Writing by Women of Colour and the Politics of Testimony (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780773534551)
language is not the only thing that breaks (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. ISBN 9781551523996)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Baldassi, Julie (24 June 2014). "Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
^ ^a ^b "2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers Honour of Distinction: Proma Tagore". Writers' Trust of Canada.