Canisia Lubrin
Author
Canisia Lubrin is the author of five books, including Voodoo Hypothesis, The Dyzgraphxst, The World After Rain (2025), and Code Noir. Her honours include a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and has been twice a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. She is Associate Professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA and the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart. Code Noir, Lubrin’s fiction debut and winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has 59 drawings by celebrated visual artist Torkwase Dyson.
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April 2026
FRYE Cabaret
Join us for our first ever FRYE Cabaret! Our six authors will read from their latest work, accompanied by drummer, percussionist and composer Martin Daigle.
Presented in partnership with l’Été musical de Barachois
27
April 2026
How Far the Light Reaches
This event will begin with a Flash FRYE reading by Rebecca Salazar (antibody, M&S), followed by an in-conversation with Jessica Bebenek (No One Knows Us There, Book*hug) and Canisia Lubrin (The World After Rain, M&S). Join our guests as they discuss the many ways in which we can care for loved ones, as well as honor and mourn unimaginable losses.