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Photo credit
Mike Deal
Ariel Gordon
BIO
Biography

Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press. Gordon also works as a publicist for the WIWF and as a copyeditor for the WFP. Gordon’s essay “Red River Mudlark” was selected by Liz Howard as 2nd place winner of the Kloppenberg Hybrid Grain Contest in Grain Magazine and other work appeared recently in FreeFallColumba PoetryCanthius, and Canadian Notes & Queries. Her most recent books include Siteseeing: Writing nature & climate change across the prairies, written in collaboration with Saskatchewan poet Brenda Schmidt and published by At Bay Press in fall 2023 and the essay collection Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest, published by W&W in June 2024.

ADDRESS
City: Winnipeg, Province/Territory: Manitoba
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Fungal: Foraging in the urban Forest
Publisher
Wolsak & Wynn
Year
2024
Title
Treed: Walking Canada's Urban Forests
Publisher
Wolsak & Wynn
Year
2019
Title
TreeTalk
Publisher
At Bay Press
Year
2020
Title
Siteseeing: Writing nature & climate across the prairies
Publisher
At Bay Press
Year
2023
AWARDS
Awards
Name
“Red River Mudlark” was selected by Liz Howard as 2nd place winner of the Kloppenberg Hybrid Grain Contest
Publication
Grain Magazine
Year
2022
Name
Shorlisted, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award at the Manitoba Book Awards
Publication
TreeTalk
Year
2021
Name
Honourable Mention, Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing (ALECC)
Publication
Treed
Year
2020
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
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Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
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Yes