Angela Rawlings
Angela Rawlings is the author of Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists(Coach House Books, 2006) and Gibber (online, 2012). She holds a Master’s degree in environmental ethics and natural resource management from the University of Iceland and is a current Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith PhD scholar at the University of Glasgow, where she is researching performance, geochronology, and the North Atlantic drift. Angela was shortlisted for the 2013 Leslie Scalapino Award, and her play Áfall/Trauma will be published in 2016 by Broken Dimanche Press.
BOOKS Áfall / Trauma. Berlin/Toronto: Broken Dimanche Press / BookThug, forthcoming. o w n, with Heather Hermant and Chris Turnbull. Vancouver: CUE Books, 2015. Gibber, an ecopoetic countermap commissioned by Arts Queensland and State Library of Queensland, 2012. Wide slumber for lepidopterists. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006. 3rd printing.
ANTHOLOGIES “Echolology” excerpt. Earth Bound: Compass Points for an Ecopoetics. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2016. “Ecolinguistic Activism and How to Rite.” Narrating Life: Immunity, Mutation, and Contagion. Amsterdam: Rodopi/Brill, 2016.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS “Eros/Erosion: Five Meditations on Desire and Loss.” Scapegoat (2016). “Rusl: Trash in Iceland.” Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (2014).
CREATIVE JOURNALS “Jöklar.” ColdFront Magazine (2014): online. “DESOURCE.” The Volta (2013): online.
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