Alison Pick was born in Toronto in 1975. The title section of her book Question & Answer won the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for most promising Canadian poet under the age of 35 and the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry. The book itself was short-listed for the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award, and for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award.

Alison was also the winner of the 2006 CBC Literary Award for Poetry.

The Sweet Edge, Alison's first novel, was published in 2005 and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of that year.

Alison has a BA in Psychology from the University of Guelph and an M Phil from Memorial University. She has lived, published, read and taught across the country, and now divides her time between Ontario and Newfoundland.

Awards

CBC Literary Award for Poetry, 2006
National Magazine Award for Poetry, 2003
Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry, 2002
Writer's Federation of New Brunswick's Alfred G. Bailey Manuscript Prize, 2002
Short Grain Prose Poem Contest, 2001
Carousel Poetry Contest, 2000
2nd Place: Arc Poem of the Year Contest, 2002
'Editor's Choice': Arc Poem of the Year Contest, 2001
Short-listed: CBC Literary Awards (Fiction), 2003
Short-listed: CBC Literary Awards (Poetry), 2002
Short-listed: This Magazine Great Canadian Literary Hunt (Fiction), 2001
Short-listed: Event Creative Non-Fiction Contest, 2001
Short-listed: CBC Literary Awards (Fiction), 2001
Short-listed: CBC Literary Awards (Poetry), 2001
Short-listed: Fiddlehead Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, 2000
Short-listed: League of Canadian Poets' National Poetry Contest, 1999

Selected Publications

The Sweet Edge (Raincoast Books, 2005)
Question & Answer (Polestar, 2003)

Selected Anthologies

Outside of Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories (Second Story Press, 2005)
Breathing Fire II: Canada's New Poets (Nightwood Editions, 2004)

Contact

aliepick@nl.rogers.com
www.alisonpick.com

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