Di Brandt's poetry has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the CAA National Poetry Prize, the McNally Robinson Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award, and has been twice short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, as well as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Award and the Griffin Prize. Di Brandt holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University, Manitoba, and is delighted to be back in Manitoba, her beloved home landscape, after a decade away, during which time she lived in Edmonton, Toronto, Windsor, and Berlin.

"Infuriating and enthralling, Di Brandt doesn't let readers off easy. Brandt is immensely skillful in combining personal narrative with academic critique. In her beautifully written style - she is, after all, a poet - she is conversationally engaging yet wholly critical." -- Jay Smith in See Magazine (Edmonton), March 29th, 2007.

"...best display[s] the combination of her literary voice

with an intellectual argument drawn from personal experience." -- Quill & Quire, May 2007.