“Ellie Sawatzky’s lines are precise and coiled, catching and unravelling like breath”

—2019 Bronwen Wallace Award Jury

ELLIE SAWATZKY (she/her)

Ellie Sawatzky is a poet, writer, editor, teacher, and author of the poetry collection None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021). A past winner of CV2’s Foster Poetry Prize, runner up for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize, and finalist for the 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award, Ellie’s poetry and prose have been published in The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, Room, Grain, The Maynard, PRISM international, The Ex-Puritan, and elsewhere. Ellie holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her research and writing have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council, and she is currently an editor for FriesenPress, founder and facilitator of the Strathcona Poetry Studio, and a member of the Growing Room Collective. She lives and relies on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver).

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