Natasha Ramoutar Joins Buckrider Books Editorial Board
December 12, 2023
For Immediate Release
Wolsak and Wynn is happy to announce that Natasha Ramoutar will be joining the Buckrider Books editorial board, to work with senior editor Paul Vermeersch and editor-at-large Mahak Jain to acquire and edit titles for the Buckrider Books imprint.
Natasha Ramoutar’s first book of poems, Bittersweet, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and named as one of CBC’s best poetry books of the year.
The Buckrider Books editorial board was put in place in 2017. It was the idea of senior editor Paul Vermeersch, who hoped to broaden the reach of the press and help address the lack of diversity in the publishing industry. Earlier members of the board have included Jordan Abel, Liz Howard, Jen Sookfong Lee and Canisia Lubrin.
Paul Vermeersch said, “I’m delighted that Natasha Ramoutar has agreed to take up a position on the Buckrider Books editorial board where she will add an exciting new voice to our editorial decisions. I am looking forward to seeing what fabulous books we will publish with Natasha’s help.”
More about Natasha Ramoutar:
Natasha Ramoutar is a writer and editor of Indo-Guyanese descent based in Toronto. Always one to celebrate her community, she curated So Fresh: A Scarborough Reading as the 2019 writer-in-residence at Firefly Creative Writing and was the Fiction Editor of FEEL WAYS, an anthology of Scarborough writing. She was a writing mentor for the Wave Art Collective Fellowship in 2021. She currently serves as a senior editor at Tales & Feathers Magazine and volunteers with the Festival of Literary Diversity.
Her first collection of poetry, Bittersweet, published in 2020 by Mawenzi House, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and named as one of CBC’s best poetry books of the year. Her second poetry collection, It Keeps Us Here, will be published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2024.
More about Wolsak and Wynn Publishers and Buckrider Books:
Wolsak and Wynn was formed in 1982 by poets Marja Jacobs and Heather Cadsby and was dedicated to publishing Canadian poetry for the first twenty-five years of its existence, winning many awards for their collections. In 2007 the press changed hands to the current publisher, Noelle Allen, and has grown to be a wide-ranging literary press, which publishes in many genres and continues to win awards. In 2012 Paul Vermeersch joined the press as senior editor, and in 2014 his imprint Buckrider Books was launched. Buckrider Books is the home of our cutting-edge literary fiction and poetry, for those books that refuse to conform.
