Filipino-Canadian writer Patria Rivera’s first poetry collection, Puti/White, published by Frontenac House in 2005, was shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She has also published The Bride Anthology (Frontenac House, 2008), BE (Signature Editions, 2011), and The Time Between (Signature Editions, 2017), and co-authored two chapbooks, Weathering: An Exchange of Poems (Silver Maple Press, 2008) and Six from the Sixth (Sixth Floor Press, 2001).

Her poetry is featured in Oxford University Press’s Perspectives in Ideology, and in Elana Wolff’s Implicate Me: Short Essays on Reading Contemporary Poems. Her poems have also been published in the Literary Review of Canada, Fireweed, and other Canadian and international publications.

Rivera has received fellowships from the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Hawthornden Castle Writers’ Residency in Scotland, and the Nieman Center for Journalism at Harvard University. She was also a recipient of the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.

In 2020, her series of haiku, "The Emperor Haiku," was featured in Art and Haiku in the Time of COVID, as part of The Toronto Public Library's Culture Online Series.

In March 2024, Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing, a book she co-edited, was launched by Cormorant Books (Toronto).

Rivera’s debut novel, The Disappearance of the Rose, has been selected for inclusion in the Philippine Writers Series 2025, by the Institute of Creative Writing, University of the Philippines-Diliman.

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