Joseph S. Stauffer Prizes

Winners

Madelaine Caritas Longman (Literature)

Madelaine Caritas Longman is the author of The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), which won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize and was longlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Room, PRISM International, Vallum, Grain, The Ex-Puritan, CV2, and elsewhere, been shortlisted for the PRISM International Creative Nonfiction Prize, and featured in art installations at Never Apart Gallery and the EK Volland Art Gallery. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University. She lives in Tio’Tià:ke (Montréal).

To learn more about Madelaine Caritas Longman, visit www.madelainelongman.com.

Kyran Richard Assing (Music)  

Kyran Richard Assing is a Trinidadian-Canadian cello-gambist who performs with early and world music ensembles in Canada and abroad. He is the founder of Les Goûts réunis – des Amériques, a board member of Les Voix Humaines, and works with organizations like Festival Montréal Baroque, Canadian New Music Network, and L'Ensemble des Violoncelles de Montréal. Kyran Richard Assing holds music degrees from UBC (International Leader of Tomorrow) and McGill (Max Stern, Schulich Scholar). His research focuses on historical African diaspora music in the Americas. He remains committed to education, community engagement, and cultural sustainability.

Anique Jordan (Visual Arts)

Anique Jordan is an artist and curator who answers the question of possibility in her work. She works in photography, sculpture and performance employing the theory of hauntology challenging historical or dominant narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images. Jordan’s work considers logics of time, the black surreal and the marvellous. She has lectured on her artistic and curatorial practices as a 2017 Canada Seminar speaker at Harvard University and in institutions across the Americas. In 2017 she co-curated the exhibition Every.Now.Then:Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Jordan is an Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design.

To learn more about Anique Jordan, visit www.aniquejjordan.com.