Nikki Reimer
BIO
Biography

Nikki Reimer is a poet, non-fiction writer, and multi-disciplinary artist. Reimer’s fourth book of poetry, No Town Called We, published by Talon Books in fall 2023, was longlisted for both the Raymond Souster and the Pat Lowther Memorial Awards. 

GRIEFWAVE.com, a multimedia, web-based, extended elegy, was launched in February 2022, and has been performed to university creative writing classes and to the Carnegie Community Centre’s Community Death Care Project series. GRIEFWAVE was partially supported via a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Reimer has also published the poetry books My Heart is a Rose Manhattan (Talon Books, 2019), DOWNVERSE (Talon Books, 2014) and [sic] (Frontenac House, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Reimer's non-fiction writing has been widely anthologized and their practice includes text-based sound and visual hybrid and multidisciplinary arts.

ADDRESS
City: Calgary, Province/Territory: Alberta
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, non-fiction, text-based multidisciplinary and hybrid arts
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
No Town Called We
Publisher
Talonbooks
Year
2023
Title
My Heart is a Rose Manhattan
Publisher
Talonbooks
Year
2019
Title
DOWNVERSE
Publisher
Talonbooks
Year
2014
Title
[sic]
Publisher
Frontenac House
Year
2010
LINKS
Links
website
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
Any
Presentation Genre
Poetry, hybrid
Presentation Length
60-90 min
Presentation Description
Presentation description

Available for artistic presentations, craft talks, discussions on form and multi-disciplinary arts practice, writing grief, the writing life, use of digital technology as part of a writing practice.

Presentation Fee(s)
Minimum $250.
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