Soraya Peerbaye
Soraya Peerbaye is a Canadian writer. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2010 for her poetry collection "Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names", and for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016 for "Tell: poems for a girlhood". She was born in London, Ontario to immigrant parents from Mauritius. She was educated at York University and the University of Guelph, and is currently based in Toronto.