Madhur Anand
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Madhur Anand
@globalecochange.bsky.social
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From science to storytelling: Madhur Anand on her leap into fiction | CBC News
Madhur Anand is a scientist and poet making her fiction debut with To Place a Rabbit. The novel explores love, identity and the unexpected pull of storytelling.
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Thanks to the CBC for their interest in my debut novel "To Place a Rabbit" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Superbly written review of TO PLACE A RABBIT by Chris Fanning in the Picton Gazette: pictongazette.ca/post/rabbit-...
Rabbit Holes - Picton Gazette | The Picton Gazette
Madhur Anand is an environmental scientist at Guelph University. She is also a poet, and won a Governor General’s Award for a memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart. Now she is also a novel...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Superbly written review of TO PLACE A RABBIT by Chris Fanning in the Picton Gazette: pictongazette.ca/post/rabbit-...
Reposted by Madhur Anand
“People have the wrong idea of writing and of time. Writing does not require time. Or more precisely, time is not the limiting factor.” An idea for me to ponder from Madhur Anand’s novel, To Place a Rabbit
August 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“People have the wrong idea of writing and of time. Writing does not require time. Or more precisely, time is not the limiting factor.” An idea for me to ponder from Madhur Anand’s novel, To Place a Rabbit
Thanks to the CBC for their interest in my debut novel "To Place a Rabbit" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
From science to storytelling: Madhur Anand on her leap into fiction | CBC News
Madhur Anand is a scientist and poet making her fiction debut with To Place a Rabbit. The novel explores love, identity and the unexpected pull of storytelling.
www.cbc.ca
September 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Thanks to the CBC for their interest in my debut novel "To Place a Rabbit" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In 2022 I was commissioned to write a poem in response to the 100-year anniversary of "The Waste Land" by #tseliot, along with a few other poets from Canada and the Ukraine. Now it's a chapbook.
We are honored to share this important and powerful chapbook. The Waste Land Project by Madhur Anand, Alex Averbuch, Erin Robinsong, A. F. Moritz, Halyna Kruk, and Iryna Shuvalova is now available in print and digital formats.
Visit our website to order your copy tinyurl.com/3ydcp6zy
Visit our website to order your copy tinyurl.com/3ydcp6zy
September 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2022 I was commissioned to write a poem in response to the 100-year anniversary of "The Waste Land" by #tseliot, along with a few other poets from Canada and the Ukraine. Now it's a chapbook.
A wonderful way to kick off a few in-person events for my new novel TO PLACE A RABBIT (Knopf Canada, 2025).
Sun Sept 7 Street Festival · 10:30AM
MISSED CONNECTIONS
A luminous panel on loneliness, longing & the work of reaching across.
Featuring:
Ian Williams
Madhur Anand
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Three of the most thoughtful writers in the country, gathered for a morning of truth-telling and tenderness.
MISSED CONNECTIONS
A luminous panel on loneliness, longing & the work of reaching across.
Featuring:
Ian Williams
Madhur Anand
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Three of the most thoughtful writers in the country, gathered for a morning of truth-telling and tenderness.
September 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A wonderful way to kick off a few in-person events for my new novel TO PLACE A RABBIT (Knopf Canada, 2025).
Such a pleasure to be able to host these three incredible books for a School of Environmental Sciences #Collaboratory outreach event. Fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction all with unique lenses on our environmental crises. #universityofguelph @uofguelph.bsky.social @emwf.bsky.social
The Courage to Care 💚 Guelph School of Environmental Sciences Set
Sunday, Sept 7 · Join Maria Reva , Kate Neville, and Farah Ghafoor as together, they ask: what does it mean to love a world that feels out of control, and how might that love be the thing that saves it? Hosted by Madhur Anand emwf.ca
Sunday, Sept 7 · Join Maria Reva , Kate Neville, and Farah Ghafoor as together, they ask: what does it mean to love a world that feels out of control, and how might that love be the thing that saves it? Hosted by Madhur Anand emwf.ca
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Such a pleasure to be able to host these three incredible books for a School of Environmental Sciences #Collaboratory outreach event. Fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction all with unique lenses on our environmental crises. #universityofguelph @uofguelph.bsky.social @emwf.bsky.social
Pleased to have been invited to @umontpellier.bsky.social and to have spoken with one of their staff writers this summer. Here's her "portrait" after a long and lovely conversation on a patio outside on the covered market of Les Halles Laissac. www.umontpellier.fr/hall-of-fame...
Madhur Anand, écologue, modélisatrice et poète - Université de Montpellier
Professeure de l’Université de Guelph au Canada, l’écologue Madhur Anand fait dialoguer sciences et arts, jusque dans sa pratique. Modélisatrice et autrice, elle profite de son accueil montpelliérain ...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Pleased to have been invited to @umontpellier.bsky.social and to have spoken with one of their staff writers this summer. Here's her "portrait" after a long and lovely conversation on a patio outside on the covered market of Les Halles Laissac. www.umontpellier.fr/hall-of-fame...
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“Fiction can change our lives.”
Dr. Madhur Anand, #UofG environmental sciences prof and award-winning poet, launches her debut novel this fall — blending science, fiction and desire.
Read more:
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/09/madh...
Dr. Madhur Anand, #UofG environmental sciences prof and award-winning poet, launches her debut novel this fall — blending science, fiction and desire.
Read more:
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/09/madh...
Madhur Anand’s Debut Novel Blends Science, Desire
Dr. Madhur Anand, award-winning poet and environmental sciences professor at the University of Guelph, reflects on her debut novel To Place A Rabbit.
news.uoguelph.ca
September 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Fiction can change our lives.”
Dr. Madhur Anand, #UofG environmental sciences prof and award-winning poet, launches her debut novel this fall — blending science, fiction and desire.
Read more:
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/09/madh...
Dr. Madhur Anand, #UofG environmental sciences prof and award-winning poet, launches her debut novel this fall — blending science, fiction and desire.
Read more:
news.uoguelph.ca/2025/09/madh...
I’m thrilled to share the news that I will be participating in a number of literary festivals and public events this coming September in southern Ontario to discuss my debut novel "To Place a Rabbit" which released this past spring. RSVP to your local event directly on their websites.
August 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I’m thrilled to share the news that I will be participating in a number of literary festivals and public events this coming September in southern Ontario to discuss my debut novel "To Place a Rabbit" which released this past spring. RSVP to your local event directly on their websites.
Coming up soon! Eden Mills Writers' Festival (Eden Mills, Ontario) www.haltonhillstoday.ca/local-news/h...
Here's the lineup for this year's Eden Mills Writers' Festival
Event will feature more than 45 Canadian authors sharing their recently and soon-to-be released books through panel discussions, readings and workshops
www.haltonhillstoday.ca
August 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Coming up soon! Eden Mills Writers' Festival (Eden Mills, Ontario) www.haltonhillstoday.ca/local-news/h...
Au revoir @umontpellier.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting this collaboration with my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social at your Institute for Advanced Studies (MAK’IT)
Thanks for hosting this collaboration with my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social at your Institute for Advanced Studies (MAK’IT)
July 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Au revoir @umontpellier.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting this collaboration with my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social at your Institute for Advanced Studies (MAK’IT)
Thanks for hosting this collaboration with my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social at your Institute for Advanced Studies (MAK’IT)
Thank you so much to scientist & writer Dr. Stephen Heard for generously reviewing my first novel TO PLACE A RABBIT, which he clarifies is not a novel about science but "the characters happen to be scientists."
Madhur Anand has published a novel, and its protagonist is a scientist. That's unusual in literary fiction - how does it work? scientistseessquirre...
I complained there aren’t enough novels about scientists – so Madhur Anand wrote one
Almost a decade ago now (can you believe I’ve been writing this blog for that long?), I pointed out that there are remarkably few novels written about scientists. Not, I mean, novels about science,…
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June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thank you so much to scientist & writer Dr. Stephen Heard for generously reviewing my first novel TO PLACE A RABBIT, which he clarifies is not a novel about science but "the characters happen to be scientists."
The Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions at @umontpellier.bsky.social will host a workshop I'm leading on predicting tipping points. This workshop will nourish collaborative knowledge and deepen understandings of tipping points through art & science.
June 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions at @umontpellier.bsky.social will host a workshop I'm leading on predicting tipping points. This workshop will nourish collaborative knowledge and deepen understandings of tipping points through art & science.
Congratulations, Jessica. Great work, and a pleasure working with you.
Excited to share this research from my PhD! @globalecochange.bsky.social and I examined arthropod abundances across European agroecosystems and found that the effects of natural habitat and temperature change differed between arthropod functional groups and trait syndromes: doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems
Land-use changes and climatic changes are two entwined stressors on ecosystems. Studies on such interactions often focus on species-level or region-specific responses, but fewer have examined differe...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Congratulations, Jessica. Great work, and a pleasure working with you.
“Rendered in immersive prose that is as slippery as memory itself, To Place a Rabbit is a compelling portrait of a person who, undone by desire and inspiration, obsessively analyzes — and tampers with — the evidence of her past.”
--Literary Review of Canada
reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
--Literary Review of Canada
reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
Writers after Dark: Madhur Anand’s debut novel
Alex Trnka reviews “To Place a Rabbit,” an experimental debut novel which follows one scientist’s quest to translate a French novella.
reviewcanada.ca
June 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“Rendered in immersive prose that is as slippery as memory itself, To Place a Rabbit is a compelling portrait of a person who, undone by desire and inspiration, obsessively analyzes — and tampers with — the evidence of her past.”
--Literary Review of Canada
reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
--Literary Review of Canada
reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
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Happy publication day to @globalecochange.bsky.social's TO PLACE A RABBIT! 🤩
May 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy publication day to @globalecochange.bsky.social's TO PLACE A RABBIT! 🤩
Reposted by Madhur Anand
Really glad to have a piece in the newest issue of @thenewquarterly.bsky.social, with @globalecochange.bsky.social, @ronnabloom.bsky.social, and many others. Thank you to Pamela Mulloy for inviting me to contribute. Thanks also to the juvenile squirrel for coming to pose for a photo.
May 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Really glad to have a piece in the newest issue of @thenewquarterly.bsky.social, with @globalecochange.bsky.social, @ronnabloom.bsky.social, and many others. Thank you to Pamela Mulloy for inviting me to contribute. Thanks also to the juvenile squirrel for coming to pose for a photo.
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Lovely piece on @globalecochange.bsky.social and TO PLACE A RABBIT in Guelph Today!
www.guelphtoday.com/columns/on-t...
www.guelphtoday.com/columns/on-t...
Guelph author and professor ventures into fiction
'Madhur Anand has again created a work of elegance and exploration'
www.guelphtoday.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Lovely piece on @globalecochange.bsky.social and TO PLACE A RABBIT in Guelph Today!
www.guelphtoday.com/columns/on-t...
www.guelphtoday.com/columns/on-t...
Wonderful memory of my time as a USC Wrigley Storymakers fellow in 2023. Thanks for posting Carly and I can't wait to hear about your adventures.
Absolutely thrilled to be part of this Storymakers cohort: dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025.... Grateful to kick off my sabbatical with such an inspiring group (& to follow in the footsteps of science & story role models @globalecochange.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @elenabennett.bsky.social)
Wrigley Institute selects 2025 environmental storytelling fellows
The Wrigley Institute for Environment & Sustainability has selected its 2025 cohort for the Storymakers program in environmental storytelling
dornsife.usc.edu
June 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wonderful memory of my time as a USC Wrigley Storymakers fellow in 2023. Thanks for posting Carly and I can't wait to hear about your adventures.
Grateful to see "To Place a Rabbit" included in CBC Books’ list of “36 Canadian books you should be reading in May.”
Thank you @cbcbooks for the feature — it’s an honour to be in such wonderful company. Out May 13. 🐇
#ToPlaceARabbit #CBCBooks #CanadianBooks #DebutNovel
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Thank you @cbcbooks for the feature — it’s an honour to be in such wonderful company. Out May 13. 🐇
#ToPlaceARabbit #CBCBooks #CanadianBooks #DebutNovel
www.cbc.ca/books/to-pla...
To Place a Rabbit by Madhur Anand | CBC Books
A scientist is consumed by memories of love and loss as she translates a French novella.
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May 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Grateful to see "To Place a Rabbit" included in CBC Books’ list of “36 Canadian books you should be reading in May.”
Thank you @cbcbooks for the feature — it’s an honour to be in such wonderful company. Out May 13. 🐇
#ToPlaceARabbit #CBCBooks #CanadianBooks #DebutNovel
www.cbc.ca/books/to-pla...
Thank you @cbcbooks for the feature — it’s an honour to be in such wonderful company. Out May 13. 🐇
#ToPlaceARabbit #CBCBooks #CanadianBooks #DebutNovel
www.cbc.ca/books/to-pla...
Thanks to the @theglobeandmail.com for placing "To Place a Rabbit" on their Spring 2025 reading list and for calling it "Borgesian."
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
Thirty-seven new books you need to read this spring
Looking to buy more Canadian books? Our spring preview offers plenty of exciting new titles to choose from
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March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thanks to the @theglobeandmail.com for placing "To Place a Rabbit" on their Spring 2025 reading list and for calling it "Borgesian."
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...
Bridging the Social and Natural Sciences: Workshop with Prof. Madhur Anand - Care Climate
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Bridging the Social and Natural Sciences: Workshop with Prof. Madhur Anand - Care Climate
As part of the second part of Prof. Dr. Madhur Anand’s CARE Visiting Fellowship, Sciences Po recently had the pleasure of hosting a workshop exploring the integration of social and natural sciences in...
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March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Bridging the Social and Natural Sciences: Workshop with Prof. Madhur Anand - Care Climate
www.care-climate.com/bridging-the...
www.care-climate.com/bridging-the...
Thanks to the CBC for promoting Canadian fiction coming out in the first half of 2025 including my novel "To Place a Rabbit." Available for pre-order now at your favourite Canadian bookstore.
February 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Thanks to the CBC for promoting Canadian fiction coming out in the first half of 2025 including my novel "To Place a Rabbit." Available for pre-order now at your favourite Canadian bookstore.
Heading to Paris again to speak with grad students @sciencespo.bsky.social for our CARE (Climate Adaptation, Resilience, & Empowerment) collaboration integrating social & natural sciences, including human behaviour. An assigned reading from @noaa.gov is now broken.
research.noaa.gov/how-social-s...
research.noaa.gov/how-social-s...
research.noaa.gov
February 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Heading to Paris again to speak with grad students @sciencespo.bsky.social for our CARE (Climate Adaptation, Resilience, & Empowerment) collaboration integrating social & natural sciences, including human behaviour. An assigned reading from @noaa.gov is now broken.
research.noaa.gov/how-social-s...
research.noaa.gov/how-social-s...
"“What we’re observing in this study for the first time is likely the outer core disturbing the inner core.”
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe.
www.independent.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"“What we’re observing in this study for the first time is likely the outer core disturbing the inner core.”