Alison Pick

Alison Pick
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Alison Pick was the winner of the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry, and the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry. Her first collection, Question & Answer, was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award and for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. A new collection, The Dream World, is due out from McClelland & Stewart in 2008. Alison's novel, The Sweet Edge, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2005, and has recently been optioned for film. Alison Pick lives in Toronto.