Creativity and Society Industry Professionals Panel
Faculty Reading Series: Camilla Gibb & Daniel Scott Tysdal: October 8, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | VC102
The 2025 Alta Lind Cook Prize: Grace Huo
Grace Huo has been awarded the Alta Lind Cook Prize for her outstanding original literary composition titled Nameless Poem. Nameless Poem is, on the surface, just a simple story about two people and a horse wandering through an extremely generic ancient Chinese Jianghu setting. One of the them has lost his memory and sets out on a journey to uncover his past, only to gradually realize he was once a notorious villain. The only clue to his forgotten identity had been a mysterious nameless poem he found in his pocket upon waking.
But beneath this lighthearted, episodic tale, lies an allegory about redemption, reincarnation, and the search for moral clarity. Drawing in a lot of vaguely Buddhist themes, the story explores the consequences of one's actions across lifetimes, and the quiet persistence of the soul in its longing for resolution.
Grace Huo Vic 2T5 graduated with an Honours Bachelors of Arts, double majoring in history and international relations. She is currently pursuing her J.D. at Columbia Law School. Grace is immensely grateful for her time at UofT, where she was honoured to receive recognition for both her academic scholarship and creative works. She plans to continue writing, and to never stop pursuing her love for telling stories.
To learn more about the prize or how to apply for next year, click here.
People
Adam Sol, PhD, is the Launch Director for the Centre for Creativity and the Coordinator of the Creative Expression & Society Minor. He teaches a number of courses for that program, as well in the Vic One Program. Before joining Victoria College, he was an Associate Professor of English at Laurentian University. He is best known as a poet and critic of poetry. His academic scholarship focuses on the concept of ethnicity in American literature, particularly from the early 20th century.
Email: a.sol@utoronto.ca
Kelly Baron recently defended her PhD in contemporary Canadian Literature from the University of Toronto. She's a regular reviewer for Literary Review of Canada and her work can be found in Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature and English Studies in Canada, among others. With Andrew DuBois, she's co-editing Sing in Me, Oh Muse: New Essays on the Crossroads of Music and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2025). Her research interests are in contemporary Canadian Literature, Canadian book culture, literary audio and the connections between music and literature.
Email: vic.creativity@utoronto.ca
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