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ENGLISH-LANGUAGE JURY MEMBERS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE JURY FOR TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD
maxine bailey is an executive leader in Toronto’s dynamic arts community serving on a series of boards and committees. She is the founder of the Toronto International Film Festival’s five-year campaign focused on gender parity, Share Her Journey, garnering international recognition for creating a more equitable film industry. Naturally curious, maxine is a cultural curator, moderator, host, juror, voracious reader, and general disruptor. Her current mantra is: Culture changes lives, and I want to be part of that change.
Steven W. Beattie spent more than a dozen years as review editor at Quill & Quire, the magazine covering the Canadian publishing industry. His reviews and criticism have appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries, and elsewhere.
Cherie Dimaline is a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario who has published five books. Her 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves, won the Governor General’s Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers, and was the fan favourite for CBC’s 2018 Canada Reads. It was named a Book of the Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and the CBC, has been translated into several languages, and continues to be a national bestseller two years later. Her most recent novel for adults, Empire of
Wild (Penguin Random House Canada) became an instant Canadian bestseller and was named Indigo’s #1 Best Book of 2019. It was published in the US through William Morrow in July 2020. Cherie recently moved from Vancouver, BC, to Midland, ON, where she is working on a new YA book, the next adult novel and the hotly anticipated sequel to The Marrow Thieves.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE JURY FOR TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
Michael Redhill is a poet, playwright, and novelist. His most recent publication is Twitch Force, a collection of poetry from House of Anansi Press. His last novel, Bellevue Square, was published in 2017 and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Toronto.
Liz Howard’s debut Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, will be out with McClelland & Stewart in June 2021. She is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario, she currently lives in Toronto.
Sheniz Janmohamed is a firm believer in fostering community through collaboration and creativity. A poet, artist educator, spoken word artist and nature artist, Sheniz holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Bleeding Light (Mawenzi House, 2010) and Firesmoke (Mawenzi House, 2014). Her writing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Descant and CV2, and she is a regular reviewer for Quill & Quire. Sheniz’s third collection of poetry, Reminders on the Path (2021), is forthcoming with Mawenzi House.
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