Jane Shi + Annharte (On Edge Reading Series Fall 2024)

Jane Shi + Annharte
Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 5:30PM PT
in the Aboriginal Gathering Place
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Jane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəýəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility ProjectBlog, Briarpatch Magazine, The Offing, CV2 Magazine, ROOM Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, Canthius, and Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press), among others. She is the winner of The Capilano Review's 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest and author of the chapbook Leaving Chang'e on Read (Rahila's Ghost Press, 2022). echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) is her debut poetry collection. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated.

For more information about Jane: Official website
_{Jane's photo: Joy Gyamfi}

ANNHARTE, AKA MARIE BAKER, is Anishinabe from the Little Saskatchewan First Nation, Manitoba. She is poet, essayist, playwright, and oral storyteller. Annharte is the author of five poetry books, Miskwagoode (New Star Books, 2022), Indigena Awry (New Star Books, 2012), which won the inaugural Blue Metropolis First Peoples Literary Prize, Exercises In Lip Pointing (New Star Books, 2003,) Columbus Coyote Cafe (Moonprint, 1994) and Being On the Moon (Polestar, 1990; Raincoast, 2000.) Her book of essays, interviews and memoir is AKA: Inendagosekwe (Capilano University Editions, 2013.) She is currently working on a book about disability.

_{Annharte's photo: Madeline Terbasket}