Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas
Gloria Blizzard, Artsci鈥85
Author Gloria Blizzard, Artsci鈥85, is an award-winning, Toronto-based writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages whose collection of personal essays, Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, is a thought-provoking and poetic work. Weaving together moments from different parts of her life, she takes a closer look at the connections between music, dance, and culture, as well as geography and language, in what CBC Books calls a 鈥減owerful and deeply personal collection.鈥 Her work draws attention to issues involving belonging, while fearlessly addressing contemporary themes of feminism, racism, and colonialism. is available from Dundurn Press.