Rachel Rose was appointed poet laureate of Vancouver for 2014-2017 on the strength of her relatively small but distinguished output that has been accorded numerous awards and critical acclaim.

Now she has received her second Pushcart Prize for a poem in her fourth collection, Marry & Burn. The winning poem 'White Lilies' appears in a re-titled version in Marry & Burn as 'Living on Islands I'.

Described as "a searing collection of poems on the subjects of love, loss and addiction,"; Marry & Burn goes beyond intimate struggles to subjects that include the unexpected heartache of losing an entire hive to the global bee epidemic and the reconciliation process to heal the wounds of racism for Canada's First Nations constituencies.
Easily one of the most important poets to emerge in B.C. in the early 21st century, Rachel Rose has also won the Pat Lowther Award and the Audre Lorde Award for her third collection, Song & Spectacle (2012).

Rose was also the librettist for an opera about forbidden love and fundamentalism, When the Sun Comes Out. It premiered in Vancouver in 2013 and was remounted in Toronto in 2014.
A dual Canadian/American citizen, Rachel Rose was born in Vancouver in 1970. She has returned to Vancouver with her family after many years in Seattle, Montreal, and Japan.

Rose's other poetry awards include the Best American Poetry 2001, A.M. Klein 2000 Award for Poetry, the 1993 Peterson Memorial Prize for Poetry, and she was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal.
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