Jen Currin
BIO
Biography

Jen Currin's Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (Anansi, 2023), The Inquisition Yours (Coach House, 2010), which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and was a finalist for a LAMBDA, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award; and School (Coach House, 2014), which was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award. Jen has also published poems and stories in numerous U.S. and Canadian journals and magazines, including Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, VERSE, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Cream City Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Mississippi Review, PRISM International, and Washington Square. Their second collection of short stories, Disembark, will be out from House of Anansi in May of 2024. Currin was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Multnomah, Clackamas, Chinkook, Tualatin, and other tribes. They currently live on unceded Qayqayt, Musqueam, Kwikwetlem, and Kwantlen Nation territories in New Westminster, BC, (a suburb of Vancouver) and teach creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. 

ADDRESS
City: New Westminster, Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
LANGUAGES
English
LINKS
Links
website
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
any
Presentation Genre
poetry, fiction
Presentation Length
open
Presentation Fee(s)
depends
Workshop details
Audience Size
10-20
Intended Audience
open
Workshop Length
2-3 hours
Workshop Description
Workshop description

Poetry, fiction, flash fiction, autofiction, poetic forms, etc.

Workshop Fee(s)
depends
School presentation details
Audience Size
depends
Intended Audience
university, high school, middle school
Presentation Length
1-2 hours
Presentation Fee(s)
depends
EQUITY INITIATIVE
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Members who identify as:
LGBTQI2S
Programs & Interests
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