Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and documentarian whose work examines race, gender, diaspora, exile, and social justice. Her major books include *No Language Is Neutral*, *Land to Light On*, *Ossuaries*, *What We All Long For*, and *A Map to the Door of No Return*. Born in Trinidad in 1953, Brand later taught at the University of Guelph and served as Toronto’s Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012.