Rhea Tregebov is a Canadian poet, novelist, and children’s writer. In addition to her position at the University of British Columbia she worked extensively as a freelance editor. Her most recent collection of poetry, Talking to Strangers, was released by Véhicule Press in 2024. The Montreal Review of Books notes: “To be a flower in Rhea Tregebov’s garden, a bird in her window, a passerby on the street, is to be loved indiscriminately. This generosity of feeling is palpable in every line of Talking to Strangers, the eighth book by an enduring voice in Canadian poetry.” Tregebov’s novel, Rue des Rosiers (2019), addresses the 1982 terrorist attack on a Jewish deli in Paris. Her first novel, The Knife Sharpener’s Bell (2009), follows the reverse immigration of a Depression-era Canadian family to the Soviet Union. She has also published five popular children’s picture books. Tregebov has edited numerous anthologies, including Arguing with the Storm, an anthology of stories by women writers which she co-translated from the Yiddish.

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