Trish Salah
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York University (Ph.D.)[1]
- Poet
- Activist
- Academic
Trish Salah | |
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| Born | |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | Concordia University (B.A., M.A.)[1] York University (Ph.D.)[1] |
| Occupations |
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| Employer | Queen's University[2] |
| Notable work | Wanting in Arabic (2002; 2013) Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (2014; 2017) |
| Awards | Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction (2014) |
Trish Salah is an Arab Canadian poet, activist, and academic. She is the author of the poetry collections Wanting in Arabic (TSAR Publications, 2002) and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (Roof Books, 2014). An expanded Canadian edition of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 was published by Metonymy Press in 2017.
Salah was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is of Lebanese and Irish Canadian heritage. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, and her Ph.D. in English Literature at York University in Toronoto, Ontario. While a teaching assistant at York, Salah was politically active in the Canadian Union of Public Employees as the first transgender representative to their National Pink Triangle Committee.[3] She is currently associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University, and prior to her appointment at Queen's, was faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Her creative and scholarly work addresses transgender and transsexual politics and experience, diasporic Arab identity and culture, anti-racism, queer politics and economic and social justice. Her poetry combines lyric and experimental forms.[4]
The 2013 reissue of Wanting in Arabic won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.[5] In 2018, she was named a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Canadian LGBTQ writers.[6]
