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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: September 24, 1973
Ethnicity: * father – French-Canadian * mother – Mixed South Asian-Guyanese
Sonnet L’Abbé, Ph.D., is a Canadian poet, editor, professor, and critic. As a poet, Sonnet writes about national identity, race, gender, and language.
She is multiracial. Her father, Jason L’Abbé, is a Franco-Ontarian, and her mother, Janet L’Abbé, is Guyanese, of South Asian mixed descent. Her father is a ceramic artist and her mother is also an artist.