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Guelph Comes to Calgary! In the spirit of deepening the literary connections between Calgary and other Canadian cities, we offer a Guelph edition of this reading series, in which we showcase the work and career trajectory of the multi-talented Guelph-based writer Madhur Anand in conversation with Julie Sedivy. Join us for a reading and in-depth conversation in which we’ll explore the many inventive ways in which Anand has explored ruptures of identity and multiplicities of perspective, whether they are cultural, linguistic, or vocational (literary/scientific).
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Madhur Anand's debut book of creative non-fiction This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named one of 10 all-time "trailblazing" poetry collections by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was also a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. To Place a Rabbit is her first novel, and was named one of the top 100 books of 2025 by The Globe and Mail and one of the top Canadian fiction books of 2025 by the CBC. Anand is a professor and the director of the Global Ecological Change and Sustainability Laboratory at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
Julie Sedivy is a writer and linguist whose work straddles scientific and literary worlds. Her book Memory Speaks (Harvard University Press) was shortlisted for two Alberta Literary Awards and was named by The Economist as one of the top five books about language in a “golden age” of language writing. Her most recent book, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), won the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and was a finalist for the Alberta Memoir Award. Linguaphile was listed as a Best Book of 2024 by The New Yorker and Kirkus. She is the co-editor (with Rona Altrows) of Waiting, a collection of personal essays (University of Alberta Press), and the co-author (with Souad Shehab) of Ayah and the Big World Outside, a forthcoming children’s book to be published by Orca. She is a citizen of three countries, and now makes her home on the achingly beautiful lands of Treaty 7.
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1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8
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