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Margaret Christakos

マーガレット・クリスタコス

Māgaretto Kurisutakosu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1962 （Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada）
Nationality
Canada
Languages
English
Residence History
Sudbury, Ontario → Montreal, Quebec → Toronto, Ontario

Career

Occupations
Poet, Fiction author, Literary essayist, Creative writing instructor
Active Years
1988-2024
Affiliations
OCAD University, University of Windsor, PEN Canada, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, University of Guelph-Humber, Western University, University of Alberta, University of Toronto's University College
Influenced By
Nicole Brossard, Marguerite Duras, Daphne Marlatt, Erín Moure, Kathy Acker

Education

York University
Visual Arts
Degree: B.F.A.
Year of Graduation: 1985
Country: Canada
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
History and Philosophy of Education
Degree: M.A.
Year of Graduation: 1995
Country: Canada

Awards & Nominations

Works

Bibliography

  • Not Egypt
  • With all my heart i heard u speaking
  • Other Words for Grace
  • The Moment Coming
  • Wipe Under A Love
  • Charisma
  • Excessive Love Prostheses
  • Sooner
  • Retreat Diary
  • Adult Video
  • What Stirs
  • Welling
  • Multitudes
  • Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies
  • Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos
  • charger
  • Dear Birch

Style & Themes

Literary Style
fluid and intersecting lines of sexuality and identitygender and motherhoodrecombinant poeticsautobiography's formal and social concerns
Recurring Motifs
sexualityidentitymotherhood

Legacy

Prominent Canadian poet who has published ten collections of poetry, a novel, an intergenre memoir, and more. Toronto resident and creative writing instructor at various universities.

Trivia

  • She is bisexual.