What Kind of Daughter? Book Launch

Name: What Kind of Daughter? Book Launch
Start: 2024-10-10T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Audreys Books Ltd.

Schedule

Thu Oct 10 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Audreys Books Ltd. | Edmonton, AB

The official Edmonton Book Launch for, What Kind of Daughter? by Rayanne Haines. In this poetic memoir Haines considers identity and gender expectations while exploring the public perception of the space between the spaces we inhabit during periods of grieving, whether that grieving is based in loss of self or the loss of another. Haines reflects on her life growing up in rural Alberta, and considers the loss of her mother to cancer while asking questions such as how do we steer through holding patterns of almost grief, how do we navigate the terrain of discovery, how do we journey through the burden of care? In What Kind of Daughter? Haines reflects on the choices women are asked to make and challenges readers to reflect on the way we value, devalue, or simply exist within the spaces of gender and grief.

BIO:
RAYANNE HAINES is the author of Tell The Birds Your Body Is Not A Gun (Frontenac House), winner of the 2022 Stephan G. Stephansson, Alberta Literary Award for Poetry and shortlisted for both the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award, and the ReLit Award. She's also the author of the poetry collections The Stories in My Skin (2013) and Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning (Inanna, 2017), as well as a four-part urban fantasy series. Rayanne served as the 2022 Writer in Residence for the Edmonton Region Federation of Libraries. She is a Pushcart-nominated poet, the recipient of an Edmonton Artist Trust Fund Award, host of the Crow Reads Podcast, President of the League of Canadian Poets, and an Assistant Professor at MacEwan University. Rayanne has been published in the Globe and Mail, Minola Review, Fiddlehead, Grain, FreeFall, Prairie Fire and others.