Madhur Anand

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Madhur Anand is a Canadian poet and professor of ecology and environmental sciences.

Her first collection of poems, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes ^[1] (ISBN 978-0771006982), was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2015 and was nominated for a Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2016. Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as the Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Lemon Hound, The Rusty Toque, and The Walrus. Her work also appeared in the anthologies The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science and How a Poem Moves. She co-edited the first contemporary anthology of Canadian ecological poetry Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry (Your Scrivener Press, 2009).^[2]

Anand completed her PhD in theoretical ecology at Western University in 1997 and conducts research on ecological change and sustainability science. Her topics of research include coupled human-environment systems and forest and forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems, and especially how sources of stress and disturbance, such as agriculture and climate change, impact these ecosystems across different spatial scales and time scales. She uses simulation modelling, statistical tools, dendrochronology, and other observational methods. She is a full professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph.

Her memoir This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2020 Governor General's Awards.^[3]

She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and lives in Guelph, Ontario.

See also[]

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers

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External links[]

• Official website

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