Canisia Lubrin

Voodoo Hypothesis rejects the contemporary and historical systems that paint black people as inferior.

In addition to her career as a poet, Lubrin is Assistant Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

She was appointed the Inaugural Shaftesbury Writer in Residence of Victoria College at the University of Toronto and worked as an editor with Buckrider Books, an imprint of Canadian independent press Wolsak & Wynn from 2018 to 2021.

In 2021, Lubrin was named one of two winners, alongside Natalie Scenters-Zapico, of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in poetry.

The book was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[21] and for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2024 Governor General's Awards.