Katia Grubisic

Katia Grubisic is a Canadian writer, editor and translator.

She attended the University of New Brunswick, and graduated from [University] with a Master's of Arts in 2006.</ref> She has acted on the editorial boards of Qwerty and of The Fiddlehead, and is a frequent editor for The New Quarterly. From 2008 onwards, she has been the coordinator of the Atwater Poetry Project reading series.

Her work has appeared in Grain, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Prairie Fire, in the anthologies Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry and The Hoodoo You Do So Well, and in other Canadian and international publications. She reviews books for Arc, The Globe and Mail and The Rover, among others.

Awards

• 2009 Gerald Lampert Award

Works

Poetry

• What if red ran out (Goose Lane Editions, 2008) ISBN 0864925093
• Barometer Delirium Press, 2005 (chapbook) (Out of Print)

Editor

• The New Quarterly: 2010 Extra
  

• Penned: Zoo Poems Editor, with Stephanie Bolster and Simon Reader (Signal Editions – Vehicule Press, 2009) ISBN 9781550652635
  

• The New Quarterly: The Montreal Issue 106 (2008)

Other

• Croatian Literature in English With Vinko Grubišić (Školska knjiga, 2007) ISBN 9789530614864

Reviews

There is a high-minded passion to Katia Grubisic's debut poetry collection, What if red ran out, which, despite the latter's contemporary ethos, brings to mind the Greeks. Painstakingly crafted, these poems take the reader to the streets of New York, to isolated canyons and rivers, to a village in Croatia, to nameless bodegas, all without a trace of the traveller's self-consciousness. They exhibit, rather, the instinctive freedom of a hinterland explorer. We are guided through places which are both real and metaphorical, strange yet vaguely recognizable, by a voice which is at times oracular.

What if red ran out is filled with such what ifs and were nevers. Forget about hopes of grandiosity or words tangled up to make themselves unreadable to all but the chosen few academes who must translate them for us: Katia’s world is here on earth, here with strawberry jam and moths and 'cardboard eclipse thingies.'

Every poem in this book is superb. ... Great authority, confidence, strong, undeniable narrative drive without being lyrical, occasional poems in the best sense of that expression. ... Poetry that is a communication, provided you want that out of your books, but not one that demands it either, muscular, a feral python. </ref>

External links

• "Poetry readings: Katia Grubisic", The Gazette, July 30, 2009
• "The NaPoMo Questionnaire: Katia Grubisic", The National Post, April 25, 2009