Christina Shah

…Fiddlehead, Vallum, Grain, PRISM international, EVENT, The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review and elsewhere. Her work has been shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and selected for…

Deborah-Anne Tunney

…were published by Enfield and Wizenty. Her first book of poetry A Different Wolf came out in June 2020 from McGill-Queen’s University Press. [provided for 2021 Archibald Lampman Shortlist]

Ashley-Elizabeth Best

…Innovative Poetry, and her debut collection of poetry, Slow States of Collapse, was published with ECW Press. Best’s chapbook Alignment was published with Rahila’s Ghost Press in spring 2021.

gillian harding-russell

A poet, editor, and reviewer, gillian harding-russell lives on Treaty 4 territory. Her most recent publications, In Another Air (Radiant Press, 2018) and Uninterrupted (Ekstasis Editions, 2020) were shortlisted

Annick MacAskill

Annick MacAskill’s tenure as Poet-in-Residence will run from November 2021 to July 2022. Annick, along with selected mentees, appeared as a featured guest at VERSeFest, Ottawa’s international poetry festival,

Cicely Belle Blain

…the CEO of Bakau Consulting, the Editorial Director of Ripple of Change Magazine, and the author of Burning Sugar (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). Burning Sugar was shortlisted for the 2021

Jennifer Baker

…(Trainwreck Press, 2021), and Memento Mishka (with David Currie, Apt.9 Press, 2023). Her poetry, reviews, and articles can be found in Ottawater, Dusie, Canthius, The Bull Calf, Canadian Literature, The…

Yvonne Blomer

…Press, 2017 and 2021). Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur (Palimpsest Press, 2017) is her travel memoir exploring body, time, and travel. Yvonne is the past Poet Laureate…

Chantel Lavoie

Chantel Lavoie has published three books of poetry: Where the Terror Lies (Quattro, 2012), Serve the Sorrowing World with Joy (with Meg Freer, 2021), and This is

John Barton

…Manifestos, and, most recently, Lost Family: A Memoir (sonnets), a nominee for the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize, and The Essential Derk Wynand. Formerly the co-editor of Arc and editor of…

Amanda Merpaw

…variety of literary magazines including CV2, Grain, Prairie Fire, and Room. Her first chapbook was released in 2021 by Anstruther Press. (provided for the poem “Aubade in Yesterday’s Dress”)

Kevin Irie

…Day 2020 by The League of Canadian Poets. His latest book is The Tantramar Re-Vision (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). He lives in Toronto. [provided for the Arc Award of Awesomeness…

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