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Biography of Nourbese Philip
M. Nourbese Philip is a poet, novelist, essayist and playwright who lives in the City of Toronto. She practised law in the City of Toronto for seven years. Among her best known published works are She Tries Her Tongue: Her Silence Softly Breaks, Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, and Harriet’s Daughter. Her many awards include the Pushcart Prize (USA), the Casa de las Americas Prize (Cuba) for poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship (USA). In 2005 M. Nourbese Philip was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residency. M. Nourbese Philip's short stories, essays, reviews and articles have appeared in magazines and journals in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S.A., and her poetry and prose have been extensively anthologised. Her plays have been produced in London and Toronto.