Rhea Tregebov

Rhea Tregebov’s (she/her) poetry collections include Talking to Strangers (Véhicule Press, 2024), All Souls' (Véhicule Press, 2012), (alive): Selected and new poems (Wolsak & Wynn, 2004), The Strength of Materials (Wolsak & Wynn, 2001), Mapping the Chaos (Véhicule Press, 1995), The Proving Grounds (Signal, 1991), No One We Know (Mercury Press, 1986), and Remembering History (Guernica, 1982). She has won a Pat Lowther Award, a Malahat Review Long Poem prize, Honorable Mention in poetry for the National Magazine Awards, and a Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry from Prairie Schooner. Tregebov is also the author of two novels, The Knife Sharpener’s Bell (Wolsak & Wynn, 2009) and Rue des Rosiers (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019).

In addition to publishing her own poetry and fiction, she has edited anthologies of essays, poetry, and fiction, including an anthology of translations from Yiddish, Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (Sumach Press, 2007), which she co-translated. She has also published five children's picture books, including The Big Storm (Hyperion, 1993), and has published translations of poetry from Spanish and French and has edited and/or co-translated poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from a variety of languages, including Finnish, Catalan, and Bosnian.

Tregebov studied at the University of Manitoba, Cornell University, and Boston University, where she earned an MA in English and American literature. She has worked as a freelance editor of adult and young adult fiction as well as poetry. Tregebov taught creative writing for many years in the continuing education program at Ryerson University in Toronto, and she is currently an associate professor emerita in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.