Asian Heritage in Canada

Trish Salah was born in Halifax but now lives in Toronto. Her father's ancestry is Lebanese. Salah earned both a B.A. (1992) and M.A. (1994) in creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal before enrolling in a Ph.D. programme at York University (Toronto, Ont.). Salah's research interests include post-colonial literature, queer and trans studies, creative writing, poetics and psychoanalysis. Salah is currently a research associate and teacher at Concordia University in Montreal and at Bishop's Universities in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Poetry

Wanting in Arabic: Poems

Toronto: TSAR, 2002.
9th floor PS8587 .A319 W36 2002

Publisher's Synopsis

... Concerned with not covering the tracks of her own metamorphosis, the author dwells in the contradictions of a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations of lyric, ghazal, l'ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed voice. Without a memory of her father's language, the questions her poems ask are those for a home known through photographs, for a language lost with childhood.

Links

Publisher TSAR

Trish Salah webpage at Bishop's University