Alexandra Edith Amelia Basekic (née Oliver; born 1970) is a Canadian poet.
She began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[1] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.
[2] Oliver won the 2014 Pat Lowther Award for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.
[citation needed] She received a Master of Arts in drama from the University of Toronto in 1992, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing in 2012,[4][non-primary source needed] and a Doctor of Philosophy in English and cultural studies from McMaster University.
[5] CBC Books included Hail the Invisible Watchman on their list of the "best Canadian poetry of 2022".