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Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1953. She received a BA in English at the University of Manitoba and a MA in English from Boston University. She worked for years as a freelance technical writer and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where she teaches poetry, children's literature and literary translation.

She is the author of several collections of poetry including No One We Know, The Proving Grounds, and The Strength of Materials. Remembering History won the Pat Lowther Award and Poems from Mapping the Chaos received the Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award and the Malahat Review Long Poem Award.

She is also the author of several children's picture books including The Extraordinary Ordinary Everything Room, The Big Storm, Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth, Sasha and the Wind, and What-If Sara. She wrote an adult novel entitled The Knife Sharpener's Bell in 2009.

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