Laurie D. Graham grew up in Treaty 6 territory (Sherwood Park, Alberta), and she has lived in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, 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 book, Settler Education, and her third and most recent book, 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, and her poetic subjects revolve around decolonization and settler responsibility, prairie history, climate collapse, and the long poem. She recently brought out a chapbook of new work entitled Calling It Back to Me.
Laurie is also an editor of poetry and prose with eighteen years 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.
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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