Rachel Zolf

Rachel Zolf (born 1968) is a Canadian poet and scholar. An out Jewish lesbian[1] she is the author of five poetry collections: Janey's Arcadia,[2] which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and a Raymond Souster Memorial Award;[3] Neighbour Procedure;[4] Human Resources[5] (2007), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Masque [6](2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Trillium Book Award for Poetry; and Her absence, this wanderer [7](1999), the title poem of which was a finalist in the CBC Literary Competition. She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited several books of poetry. She has taught at The New School,[8] the University of Calgary, and the University of Pennsylvania. Her archives are held at York University in Toronto, Ontario,[9] and at Simon Fraser University's Special Collections in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Rachel Zolf (right) in 2016 at the Kelly Writers House.

Zolf’s video translation of three poems from Janey’s Arcadia [10] has shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Dunlop Art Gallery and other venues. Among her many collaborations, she wrote the film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women’s Picture, directed by New York artist Josiah McElheny, which premiered at Art Basel Miami [11] and showed at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Arts Club of Chicago and elsewhere. She also conducted the first collaborative MFA in Creative Writing ever, The Tolerance Project.[12]

Brian Teare's review of Human Resources in the Winter 2008 Lambda Book Report situates Zolf as "one of an extremely talented generation of Canadian lesbian/queer writers whose innovative cross-genre work comes to us after that of radical foremothers Nicole Brossard, Gail Scott and Erin Mouré."[13]

She is the daughter of author and broadcaster Larry Zolf.

Works
  • 1999: Her Absence, this Wanderer. Ottawa: BuschekBooks.
  • 2004: Masque. Toronto: The Mercury Press.
  • 2007: Human Resources. Toronto: Coach House Books.
  • 2008: Shoot & Weep. Vancouver: Nomados.
  • 2010: Neighbour Procedure. Toronto: Coach House Books.
  • 2014: Janey's Arcadia. Toronto: Coach House Books.

See also

References
  1. http://www.contemporaryverse2.ca/en/interviews/excerpt/an-interview-with-rachel-zolf
  2. Publisher's page for book Janey's Arcadia
  3. Announcement of Zolf's shortlisting for the Raymond Souster Memorial Award
  4. Publisher's page for Neighbour Procedure
  5. Publisher's page for book Human Resources ISBN 1-55245-182-8
  6. Small Press Distribution page for "Masque"
  7. Publisher's page for "Her absence, this wanderer"
  8. The New School page for Rachel Zolf's Neighbour Procedure
  9. Inventory of the Rachel Zolf fonds at York University
  10. Link to video translations at V tape, the Canadian distributor of video art
  11. http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/josiah-mcelheny/ Link to Vizcaya Museum and Gardens listing for The Light Club of Vizcaya
  12. http://thetoleranceproject.blogspot.com/ Link to The Tolerance Project
  13. Lambda Book Report (Winter 2008, pp.30-31)

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