{"id":21162,"date":"2025-12-30T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=21162"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:26:36","slug":"jennifer-hosein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jennifer-hosein\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hosein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Jennifer Hosein is a Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montreal-born writer, visual artist and educator of Trinidadian and South Asian ancestry residing in Tkaronto\/Toronto. Her poems, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and a play have been published in many literary publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"136\" height=\"218\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/12\/A-Map-of-Rain-Days-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21164 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/12\/A-Map-of-Rain-Days-book-cover.jpg 136w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/12\/A-Map-of-Rain-Days-book-cover-94x150.jpg 94w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 136px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 136\/218;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Map of Rain Days<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2020.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01OCUL_TMU\/1pfebod\/alma991014616463508636\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01OCUL_TMU\/1pfebod\/alma991014616463508636\">PS8615.O8225 M37 2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Map of Rain Days<\/em> invites us into the liminal between the nights and the <q>too-bright days.<\/q> The author navigates a life felt full on, inhabiting all its beauty and shadows the <q>slap-tumble<\/q> of sex, <q>the mean streets of the suburbs,<\/q> <q>the swill and gore<\/q> of youth. Interwoven into this life are the realities of racism, addiction, suicide, rape, and death. And then clarity ensues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Hosein <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniferhosein.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jenniferhosein.com\/\">personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Hosein <a href=\"https:\/\/writersunion.ca\/member\/jennifer-hosein\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/writersunion.ca\/member\/jennifer-hosein\">Bio page<\/a> from the Writers&#8217; Union of Canada website<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/guernicaeditions.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/guernicaeditions.com\/\">Guernica Editions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Hosein is a Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montreal-born writer, visual artist and educator of Trinidadian and South Asian ancestry residing in Tkaronto\/Toronto. Her poems, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and a play have been published in many literary publications. Poetry A Map of Rain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jennifer-hosein\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21171,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21162\/revisions\/21171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}