Laurie D. Graham grew up in Treaty 6 Territory, outside of amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), and she has lived in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Ontario) in the Territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg, since 2018, where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine, a journal of literary non-fiction based in Toronto.
Her first book, Rove, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Her second and third books, Settler Education and Fast Commute, were both nominated for Ontario’s Trillium Award for Poetry. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, won the Thomas Morton Poetry Prize, and appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry anthologies. Her fourth book, Calling It Back to Me, will be out with McClelland & Stewart in 2026.
Laurie is also an editor of poetry and prose with two decades of experience working with literary journals in Canada. She has worked with writers the world over, including Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer, Anne Carson, Michael Ondaatje, Louise Erdrich, Jan Zwicky, Robert Hass, Don DeLillo, Ocean Vuong, and many others. She is on the steering committee of the Literary Magazines Canada Collective and is vice chair of the Public Lending Right Commission.
Laurie’s maternal family comes from around Derwent, Alberta, by way of Ukraine and Poland, and her paternal family comes from around Semans, Saskatchewan, by way of Northern Ireland and Scotland. She has about a century of history in Canada.
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