Rachel Rose is a dual Canadian/American citizen whose work has been published in various journals in both countries, including Poetry, Verse, The Malahat Review, and The Best American Poetry 2001. Her work has been read on the CBC and published in several anthologies. She is the recipient of four Canada Council grants and one B.C. Arts Council Grant. Her first book, Giving My Body to Science, (McGill/Queen’s University Press) was a finalist for The Gerald Lampert Award, The Pat Lowther Award, and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal, and won the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Award. Her second book, “Notes on Arrival and Departure,” was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2005.