Rhea Tregebov is the author of  eight volumes of poetry, most recently Talking to Strangers (2024, Signal Editions, Véhicule Press). Her poetry has received the Pat Lowther Award, the Malahat Review Long Poem prize, Honorable Mention for the National Magazine Awards (poetry) and the Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry from Prairie Schooner. Her first novel, The Knife-Sharpener’s Bell, was published in 2009 from Coteau Press and is the recipient of the 2010 J.I. Segal Award for fiction, as well as being listed as a Top 100 Book for 2010 by The Globe and Mail. The Knife Sharpener’s Bell was also shortlisted for the 2012 Kobzar Prize and 2012 Manitoba Reads competition. Tregebov’s second novel, Rue des Rosiers, published in April 2019, won the Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction and was short-listed for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

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