Kyeren Regehr

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Kyeren Regehr is the author of Cult Life (Pedlar Press, 2020), shortlisted for the ReLit Awards and the Victoria Butler Book Prize. Her new collection, Disassembling A Dancer, is the winner of the Raven Chapbook Award. She earned her MFA in Writing at the University of Victoria, and spent several years on the poetry board of Canada's iconic literary periodical, The Malahat Reveiw. Kyeren has twice received writing grants from Canada Council for the Arts; her work has been published in anthologies and periodicals in Canada, Australia, and the U.S.A.

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Although I was born and raised in Australia, I grew up as a writer in Canada. My influences are poets like Dione Brand, John Thomspon, Tim Lil

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