Presenters

In-Person Conference

Cecily Nicholson volunteers with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity. She is the author of five books of poetry and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. Her most recent work, Crowd Source, follows the diurnal rhythms of crows. She is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at UBC and the 2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at UC Berkeley.

Presentations