a.rawlings

Poet, arts educator, and interdisciplinarian a.rawlings has presented and
published work throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. Her first
book, Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), received
an Alcuin Award for Design and was nominated for the Gerald Lampert
Memorial Award; the book is currently being translated into French. As the
recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, angela spent 2009 and 2010 in
Belgium, Canada, and Iceland working on her next manuscripts, researching
sound/text/movement with special emphasis on vocal and contact
improvisation, and collaborating with local artists. angela’s current
collaborators are experiential theatre company bluemouth inc., Belgian
artist Maja Jantar, German artist Philip Vormwald, and Canadian musician
Nilan Perera and dancer Julie Lassonde.