Trish Salah is an Arab Canadian poet, activist, and academic.
She is the author of the poetry collections, Wanting in Arabic, published in 2002 by TSAR Publications and Lyric Sexology Vol.
Salah was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is of Lebanese and Irish Canadian heritage.
While a teaching assistant at York, Salah was politically active in the Canadian Union of Public Employees as the first transgender representative to their National Pink Triangle Committee.
[1] She is currently associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University, and prior to her appointment at Queen's, was faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Her creative and scholarly work addresses transgender and transsexual politics and experience, diasporic Arab identity and culture, anti-racism, queer politics and economic and social justice.
[3] In 2018, she was named a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Canadian LGBTQ writers.
Arc Poetry Magazine, "Polymorphous per Verse: Special Issue on Trans, Two Spirit and Non-Binary Writers."
"Special Issue on Anne Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees."
"From Fans to Activists: Popular Feminism enlists in 'The War on Terror'."
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in post-9/11 Cultural Practice.
Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love eds.
Trans/acting Culture, Writing and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard.
Eva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton, and Ray Ellenwood, eds.
"An-Identity Poetics and Feminist Artist-Run Centers/La poétique de l'anidentité et les centres d'artistes féministes autogérés."
Montreal: Les Éditions du remue-ménage/ La Centrale Gallerie Powerhouse, 2012: 81–106.