Alexandra Oliver | |
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| Born | Alexandra Edith Amelia Oliver 1970 (age 53–54) Vancouver |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Notable works | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway |
| Spouse | Dragan Basekic |
| Website | |
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Alexandra Oliver (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.[1][2]
A graduate of the University of Toronto, the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and McMaster University, from which she earned a PhD in English in 2022, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[3] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.[4]