Tanis Rideout is a Canadian writer based in

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Biography

Born in

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, Rideout grew up in

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and Canada, particularly

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where she became involved with the music scene. Rideout has often been referred to as the "Poet Laureate of CanRock." She has performed on

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, '' ZeD'' and

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. She has toured extensively in North America. Her work has appeared in a range of quarterlies and magazines including ''

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'', '' Black Heart Magazine'', ''grey borders'', ''Spire'', ''Pontiac Quarterly'', ''Fireweed'', ''echolocation'', ''Witual'' and '' Chart'', and has been short-listed for a number of prizes, including the

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, and has received a grant from the

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. In the spring of 2005, Rideout joined

Sarah Harmer Sarah Harmer (born November 12, 1970) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and environmental activist. Early life Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sist ...

to read her poetry on Harmer's ''I Love the Escarpment Tour'' to draw attention to damage being done to the

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by ongoing quarrying, and appears in the 2006 June award-winning documentary '' Escarpment Blues''. In August 2006 she was named the Poet Laureate for

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by the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and joined

Gord Downie Gordon Edgar Downie (February 6, 1964 – October 17, 2017) was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist. He was the singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from its for ...

(of Canadian band

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) on a tour to promote environmental justice on the lake. In 2010, Rideout won second prize in the CBC Literary Awards for her poems about

Marilyn Bell Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio (born October 19, 1937) is a Canadian retired long distance swimmer. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and later swam the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca. Personal life Bell was born ...

. Her first novel, ''Above All Things'', was released in Canada in 2012, and in the US and UK in 2013.

Books

* ''Above All Things'',

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, 2012, * ''Arguments with the Lake'', Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd., 2013,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rideout, Tanis Living people Canadian women poets Canadian women novelists Writers from Toronto 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian women writers Year of birth missing (living people)