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

—2019 Bronwen Wallace Award Jury

ELLIE SAWATZKY (she/her)

I am a poet, writer, editor, facilitator, and teacher. I live and rely on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, and hold an MFA in Creative Writing. My début poetry collection, None of This Belongs to Me, was published by Nightwood Editions in 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, my poetry and prose have been published in The Fiddlehead, Room, Grain, The Maynard, PRISM international, and elsewhere. My research and writing have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council, and I am currently an editor for FriesenPress, founder and facilitator of the Strathcona Poetry Studio, and a member of the Growing Room Collective.

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