Writers Read presents Christina Sharpe and Canisia Lubrin

Canisia Lubrin is an acclaimed poet, editor, and writer. Her books of poetry include Voodoo Hypothesis (2017), which was named a CBC Best Poetry Book and was shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and The Dyzgraph*st (2020), which won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Lubrin’s fiction debut, Code Noir (2024), has been described by Dionne Brand as “storytelling at its deepest and most intimate.” Lubrin’s writings explore ideas of social justice and the relationship between limitation and possibility in regards to art, form, and language.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg, and a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University. She is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016)—named by the Guardian and the Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award—Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, 2010), and Ordinary Notes (Knopf Canada, 2023), which won the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for The National Book Award.