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Catherine Black

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Toronto, Canada

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https://www.writercatblack.ca

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Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

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Catherine Black is an Associate Professor at OCAD University, where she was a co-founder of the Creative Writing BFA program. She has published two collections of prose poetry: Lessons of Chaos and Disaster, and Pat Lowther Award-nominated Bewilderness. Her lyric nonfiction novella, A Hard Gold Thread, was nominated for the ReLit Award. Her first novel, Blessed Nowhere won the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction and is forthcoming in fall, 2024.

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Average rating: 4.57 · 53 ratings · 16 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Blessed Nowhere (Guernica Prize, 6) 4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bewilderness (Essential Poets series) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hard Gold Thread (1) (First Fictions Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons of Chaos and Disaster 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Horse at Night: On Writing

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