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Alexandra Oliver (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.

A graduate of the University of Toronto, the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and McMaster University, from which she earned a PhD in English in 2022, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s, and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.

Bibliography

• Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013)
• Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, co-editor with Annie Finch (2015)
• Let the Empire Down (2016)
• On the Oven Sits a Maiden (chapbook) (2018)
• Hail the Invisible Watchman (2022)

References

1. "Anne Compton, Alexandra Oliver, Murray Reiss win League of Canadian Poets awards". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2014.
2. "The Outlier". The Walrus, June 9, 2016. Accessed August 12, 2020.
3. "Hot Shots of '93: They're young and they're dazzling". Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
4. ^ "Michael Lista, On Poetry: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, by Alexandra Oliver". National Post, November 15, 2013.
5. ^ Alexandra Basekic. McMaster University Faculty of Humanities. Accessed August 12, 2020.
6. "Measured Pleasures: Alexandra Oliver's Let the Empire Down". Arc Poetry Magazine, May 14, 2017. Accessed August 12, 2020.
7. Hail, the Invisible Watchman

External links

• Official website

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