Tanya has a new book out: Carrying War: A Memoir

Carrying War: A Memoir
  by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allat 

Instead of letting fear rule her life, Tanya found ways to overcome it.
Terrorism first intersected Tanya’s life in 1982 when she was twelve years old and living in Israel. Its shadow loomed closer when her family moved to Beirut at the height of the Lebanese Civil War to accompany her father on his United Nations peacekeeping mission. That was forty years ago. But the aftershock, the trauma, and the imprint of terror remain.

In these narrative essays, the reader moves from the Middle East to Europe, from Quebec’s Eastern Townships to Yellowknife in a personal exploration of terror — psychic, criminal, spiritual, and political. The journey is challenging, yet it carries both redemption and hope.

When asked how to defeat terrorism, Salman Rushdie answered, “Don’t be terrorized. Don’t let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.” The essays in Carrying War are about one woman’s lifelong struggle with fear and the ways she has found to overcome it.

Carrying War: A Memoir is available from the publisher Dundurn Press here.

Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt is the author of the critically acclaimed Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle East Memoir (Thistledown, 2021, see here) and two collections of poetry: Chaos Theories of Goodness, (Shoreline, 2022, see here) and The Hospitality of Trees (Shoreline, 2025, see here).

Tanya’s award-winning essays, poems and fictions have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Grain, Prairie Fire, Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, and Best Canadian Essays 2015 and 2019. She holds an MA in English Literature from McGill and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.

Visit Tanya at her website here: https://tanyaallattbellehumeur.com/

For information about submitting to Dundurn Press, see here.

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