Aldona Dziedziejko is a first-generation immigrant writer and educator. Her poetry and creative
nonfiction have appeared in Globe & Mail, CV2, Poetry is Dead, The Capilano Review, Fiction Southeast,
and PRISM International, among others. Her work has been recognised through the
Lina Chartrand Poetry Award (CV2), Magpie Poetry Contest and the Hummingbird Flash
Fiction Contest (Pulp Literature), Lush Triumphant Literary Prize (subTerrain), Off Topic Poetry Contest,
as well as Room Magazine’s Short Forms Contest. Recently she left her post as a guest and teacher
in a hamlet in the Tlicho region belonging to the Dene people. She is now living near the
Rocky Mountains in Clearwater Country with her partner, daughter and a dog named Henry.