Canada

Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is a disabled, bakla poet and playwright. Colgate is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling...

Patrick Lane, whose career spanned more than 50 years, was one of Canada's preeminent 20th-century poets. He won numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association...

Syd (formerly Rachel) Zolf is the author of numerous books, including No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics (Duke University Press, 2021), a finalist for the 2022 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the...

Canadian poet Marie Uguay (née Lalonde) was born in Montreal. When she was 16, Les Éditions du Noroît published her first collection Signe et rumeur (1976), which she hand-lettered and illustrated herself....

Canadian poet, illustrator, and author Rupi Kaur was born in India in 1992 and moved to Canada four years later. She became popular on Instagram and Tumblr through sharing her short visual poetry. As a 21-...

Writer, critic, editor, and teacher Canisia Lubrin grew up in St. Lucia. She studied at York University and earned an MFA at the University of Guelph. Lubrin is the author of the poetry collections The Dyzgraphxst...

Nancy Lee was born in Cardiff, Wales, to parents of Chinese and Indian descent and grew up in Peterborough, England, and Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of the poetry collection What Hurts Going...

Rugaia Warrag studied philosophy at Cairo University (Khartoum branch) and sociology and gender studies at Brock University, Canada. A journalist and human rights activist, she now lives in Canada where she...

One of Canada’s most revered poets, Robert Bringhurst is also a typographer, translator, cultural historian, and linguist. Born in Los Angeles, California, he studied comparative literature at Indiana University...

Roy Miki was born in Winnipeg and grew up on a beet farm in Manitoba where his parents, both second-generation Japanese Canadians, were forcibly relocated from Canada’s west coast during WWII. He earned his...

Gladys Maria Hindmarch was born on Vancouver Island and earned a BA and an MA from the University of British Columbia. An experimental prose writer, Hindmarch is the author of a novel, The Peter Stories (1976...

Daphne Marlatt was born Daphne Buckle in Melbourne, Australia, and spent her childhood in Malaysia. Her family immigrated to Canada when she was nine, and she earned her BA from the University of British Columbia...

Canadian poet, playwright, teacher, and activist Gregory Scofield was raised in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon. He is a Métis of Cree, Scottish, English, French, and Jewish descent. Scofield’s poetry...

Poet and writer Marilyn Dumont earned her BA from the University of Alberta and MFA from the University of British Columbia. She is of Cree and Métis ancestry. Her first collection of poetry, A Really Good...

Poet and performer Anna Marie Sewell was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and is of Mi’gmaq, Anishinaabe, and Polish heritage. She is the author of the poetry collections Fifth World Drum (2009) and For...

Jeff Derksen was born in New Westminster, British Columbia. He earned a BA from David Thompson University Centre and an MA and PhD from the University of Calgary. He is the author of four collections of poetry...

Ian Williams is the author of three books, including Personals (Freehand Books, 2012), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Daniel Scott Tysdal is a poet, teacher, and author of The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Michael Prior earned an MFA from Cornell University and an MA in English literature from the University of Toronto. His is the author of Burning Province (2020) and Model Disciple (2016), which was named one...

Sachiko Murakami is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Get Me Out of Here (Talonbooks, 2015).