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Biography
Dr. Madhur Anand is a Full Professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, Canada. As a scientist, she has co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers and the textbook Climate Change Biology (CABI). Her internationally-funded and award-winning research program spans the fields of human-ecological modelling, climate change, biodiversity, complex systems, conservation ecology, and sustainability science, and she has contributed work to journals such as Science magazine, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Change Biology, Conservation Biology, the Journal of Ecology, the Journal of Theoretical Biology, and Sustainability Science. She has held two prestigious Canada Research Chairs, was named Young Scientist of the World Economic Forum, and was awarded the Premier's Research Excellence Award as well as the Young Alumni Award of Merit of Western University. She served as Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation from 2015-18, and serves as Associate Editor for the interdisciplinary journal Ecosphere.
Madhur Anand’s debut book of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada, 2015) was published to international acclaim ("in every measure a triumph", Publisher's Weekly starred review) and was listed by Canadian Broadcasting Agency as one of 10 all-time “trailblazing” poetry collections to read for its blending of art and science. The book was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her more recent award-winning poetry and prose has appeared in a number of magazines including The Puritan, Brick magazine, Longreads.com, The New Quarterly, The Walrus and This magazine. Dr. Anand has also published critical and scholarly work in ecopoetics and as a literary reviewer in The Literary Review of Canada and elsewhere. She co-edited the first anthology of contemporary Canadian ecological poetry, Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry (Scrivener Press, 2009) and currently serves as poetry editor for Canadian Notes and Queries, as Education Review Committee member of the Walrus, and on the Board of Directors for the Eden Mills Writers Festival. Her next book is a work of hybrid/experimental/poetic creative non-fiction, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, forthcoming in 2020 by Strange Light/Penguin Random House Canada.