(Montreal, Canada, 1947) Poet, biographer, and anthologist, Rosemary Sullivan (O.C., F.R.S.C) is the author of 15 books. She received her B.A. from McGill University in 1968; her M.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1969, and her PhD from the University of Sussex in 1972. She then moved to France to teach at the Universities of Dijon and Bordeaux. In 1974 she was hired at the University of Victoria, and then in 1977 at the University of Toronto, where she taught until her retirement. She held a Canada Research Chair in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction from 2001 to 2013 and was the founding director of the University’s Creative Writing Program in 2003. Between 2004-07 she was Maclean Hunter Chair of the Creative Non-Fiction/ Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta. She is now a Professor Emerita. Sullivan has won a Governor General’s Award for non-fiction and the Canadian Jewish Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History/ Scholarship for Villa Air-Bel. In 2015, she published Stalin’s Daughter which won the Writers’ Trust Hillary Weston Non-Fiction Award, the BC National Non-Fiction Award, the RBC Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Prize, and the U.S. Biographers International Plutarch Prize for Best Biography. She was also a finalist for the American PEN/ Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the National Books Critics Circle Award. She has won Guggenheim, Trudeau, Jackman, and Killam Fellowships and held residencies in Mexico City, Camargo, France, and Karnataka, India. Aside from her writing career, Sullivan has worked with Amnesty International since 1979, and in 1980 she founded The Writers and Human Rights Congress to aid its activities. Sullivan was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada and awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.