Liars of Orpheus Episode #5

Liars of Orpheus is a show where writers win points from bootlegging their truths past their opponents or having their lies mistaken for truths.

This month we're very lucky to have Alessandra Naccarato, Mark Perez, Michael V. Smith, Naomi Steinberg as our presenters and our host, all the way from the republic of east Vancouver, Lucia Misch.

This is our 5th episode of Liars of Orpheus. This one features Alessandra Nacarrato, Mark Perez, Michael V Smith and Naomi Steinberg and our fabulous host Lucia Misch.

Alessandra Naccarato is the author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene (Essays) and Re-Origin of Species (Poems). Based in Tkaronto (Toronto), she is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including the Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada and the CBC Poetry Prize. A founding editor of Write Bloody North Publications, she has toured nationally and internationally as a spoken word artist and supported emerging writers across the country for nearly two decades.

Her work has been translated into French and Italian and appeared widely in publications such as Arc, CV2, The New Quarterly, and Room Magazine. Re-Origin of Species was awarded the AICW Bressani Literary Prize for Poetry, nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and named a Best Book of 2019 by CBC Books.

Marc Perez is a Filipino poet and writer living in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. His fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in The Fiddlehead, EVENT Magazine, decomp journal, CV2, PRISM international, and Vallum, among others.

Michael V. Smith is a writer, performer, and filmmaker focusing on intersections with class, gender, and sexuality. Smith has won many awards for his work and creative activism. His first feature film, The Floating Man, won Director’s Choice at Cinema Diverse, the Palm Springs queer film festival. His latest poetry book, Queers Like Me, explores growing up queer and blue collar, with verbatim and devised performance as alternative approaches for writing.

Born on Canada's supernatural westcoast, in beautiful Coast Salish territories, of French and Jewish descent, Naomi Steinberg is an internationally recognized artist and storyteller. She has brought traditional folk stories, fairy tales and community-based art projects to life in countries around the world since 2001.

Lucia Misch is a writer, performer and facilitator from unceded Muwekma Ohlone land. Lucia's spoken word poetry has found a home everywhere from historic theaters to high school auditoriums, and their first collection of poetry, The Problem With Solitaire, was released by Write Bloody North in 2020.

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