Madhur Anand
Madhur Anand’s poetry has appeared in literary magazines across North America and in the anthology The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science. Her debut collection of poems, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, was published by McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada in 2015 to international acclaim. “Anand’s attention to and ability to evoke explicit, exponential beauty in scientific and natural form are simply stunning.” (Publisher’s Weekly). Anand completed her Ph.D. in theoretical ecology at Western University, and is currently University Research Chair in Sustainability Science in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph and interim Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation.