My Ariel - Softcover

"Few poets are better equipped than Queyras to plunge into the examination of the figure of Plath as a prototype for female genius. With honesty, humour and passionate attention, she lays bare the gendered conventions that circumscribed Plath's life and how they are still, in new guises, determining her own life as well as that of her female students... Queyras's masterful collection does not stay in the shadow of Plath's work. Its mix of scholarship, dramatic monologue, persona-adopting and elegy could give rise to a multipronged new genre: the auto-poetic-bio-epic." - The Globe and Mail "The collection is so rich and so heroic, I cannot do it justice in so short a word count. Readers will need to spend a lot of time with it. Rest assured that the time will be very well spent." - Montreal Review of Books

"Cut" was featured in Poetry Magazine She is the author most recently of the poetry collection MxT (Coach House, 2014) which received the QWF Award for poetry, the Pat Lowther Award, and the ReLit award for poetry. Her 2009 collection Expressway was nominated for a Governor General's Award, and 2006's Lemon Hound won a Lambda Award and the Pat Lowther Award. My Ariel is a response to Sylvia Plath's Ariel, one of the 20th century's most iconic texts. Queyras identifies as an LGBTQ writer and her work may be of interest to bookstores with an LGBTQ focus. Sina has lived and worked in several cities across North America, and is well-connected to their individual literary scenes: New York City, Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver, Seattle, Toronto, Philadelphia. Sina is strongly connected to the North American poetry community, particularly through her popular blog, lemonhound.blogspot.com, which will be returning from hiatus this season.