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{{Short description|Ontario-born poet and educator}}
'''Rob Winger''' (born 1974) is an Ontario-born [[poet]] and educator. Winger grew up in [[Springvale, Ontario]], and has lived in [[Toronto]], [[Sackville, New Brunswick]], [[South Korea]], [[Bangkok, Thailand]], [[Guelph, Ontario]], and [[Ottawa, Ontario]]. Winger now lives with his family in [[Port Perry, Ontario]]. He has been an assistant professor in the Department of English at [[Trent University]] since 2013.
==Education==
Winger received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in English and fine arts from [[Mount Allison University]] in 1997, a [[Bachelor of Education]] from the [[University of Ottawa]] in 2001, a [[Master of Arts]] in [[English literature]] from the [[University of Guelph]] in 2002, and a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] from [[Carleton University]] in 2009.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} Winger was a postdoctoral fellow at [[McMaster University]] from 2011 to 2013.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}
==Works==
Winger's first collection of poems about famed photographer [[Eadweard Muybridge]], entitled ''Muybridge's Horse'', won the 2003 CBC Literary Award for poetry.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} Published by Nightwood Editions in 2007, the final book, ''Muybridge's Horse: a poem in three phases'', was nominated for the 2007 [[Governor General's Award]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Carey |first=Barbara |date=2007-10-18 |title=War of words |url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/ggpoetry07.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021045954/http://cbc.ca/arts/books/ggpoetry07.html |archive-date=2007-10-21 |website=[[CBC Arts]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Le Conseil des Arts du Canada sera l'hôte du Sommet mondial des arts et de la culture |url=http://www.canadacouncil.ca/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=0&page_id=6008&query=2007%20governor%20generals%20literary%20awards&hiword=2007%20AWARD%20AWARDED%20AWARDING%20GENERAL%20GENERALE%20GENERALLY%20GOVERN%20GOVERNED%20GOVERNING%20GOVERNORS%20awards%20generals%20governor%20literary%20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609002421/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=0&page_id=6008&query=2007%20governor%20generals%20literary%20awards&hiword=2007%20AWARD%20AWARDED%20AWARDING%20GENERAL%20GENERALE%20GENERALLY%20GOVERN%20GOVERNED%20GOVERNING%20GOVERNORS%20awards%20generals%20governor%20literary%20 |archive-date=2011-06-09 |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=[[Le Conseil des Arts du Canada]]}}</ref> 2007 [[Trillium Book Award|Trillium Book Award for Poetry]],<ref name="2008finalists">"Trillium Book Award announces finalists". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 24, 2008.</ref>  2007 [[Ottawa Book Award]],{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} and was named a Globe and Mail Best Book for 2007.<ref>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/article801367.ece {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>  Selections from the book have been translated into Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata. Winger is also the recipient of several grants from the [[Ontario Arts Council]] and the [[Canada Council for the Arts]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} His second and third volumes of poems,''The Chimney Stone'' (2010), which was written in conjunction with his doctoral thesis, and ''Old Hat'' (2014), were also published by Nightwood Editions.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Chimney Stone |url=http://www.nightwoodeditions.com/title/ChimneyStone |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030064735/http://www.nightwoodeditions.com/title/ChimneyStone |archive-date=2010-10-30 |website=Nightwood Editions}}</ref> His fourth collection is ''It Doesn't Matter What We Meant'' ([[McClelland & Stewart]], 2021).
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