Rhea Tregebov

Tregebov is the author of the historical novel, The Knife Sharpener's Bell (Coteau Books, 2009) which was the November 2010 selection on the Toronto Public Library's online book club, Book Buzz. The Knife Sharpener's Bell has just been listed as a Globe and Mail Top 100 book for 2010, and has recently won the J.I. Segal Prize for Fiction on a Jewish theme. She has also written six critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently (alive): New and selected poems (Wolsak & Wynn, 2004). In addition, she has published five popular children's picture books including The Big Storm and What-If Sara. She has also edited ten anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction, most recently Arguing with the Storm. Her work has received a number of literary prizes, including the Tiny Torgi award (for The Big Storm) as well as the Pat Lowther Award, Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award for her poetry.

Born in 1953 in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg, Rhea Tregebov received her undergraduate education in Winnipeg. She did postgraduate studies at Cornell and Boston Universities.

For many years she worked as a freelance writer and editor in Toronto, where she also taught creative writing for Ryerson Continuing Education. She is now Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches poetry and translation.