Margaret Christakos

Margaret ChristakosMargaret Christakos is a poet and fiction writer who has lived in Toronto since 1987. Originally from Sudbury, ON, she has published seven collections of poetry and a novel. Her books of poetry are Purple (Your Scrivener Press, forthcoming 2010), What Stirs (Coach House Books, 2008), Sooner (CHB, 2005, nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Excessive Love Prostheses (CHB, 2002, winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry), Wipe Under A Love (Mansfield, 2000), The Moment Coming (ECW, 1998), Other Words for Grace (Mercury, 1994) and Not Egypt (Coach House Press, 1989). Her novel Charisma, published in 2000 by Pedlar Press, was nominated for the Ontario Trillium Book Award. Margaret was Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2004-2005, and since 2006 has taught Creative Writing and Poetry at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She developed and facilitates the lecture-reading series "Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon" at the SCS.

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