Lunch Poems presents Jen Currin & Marc Perez (In Person)

September's Lunch Poems reading at SFU Harbour Centre's Teck Gallery features poets Jen Currin and Marc Perez.

Jen Currin's Hider/Seeker: Stories won a Canadian Independent Book Award and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. They have also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street and The Inquisition Yours, which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award and was a finalist for three awards. They live on the traditional and unceded territories of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples, including the Qayqayt, Musqueam, Kwikwetlem and Kwantlen Nations, in New Westminster, B.C., and teach creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Their second collection of short stories, Disembark, was published by House of Anansi in May 2024.

Marc Perez is the author of Dayo (Brick Books, 2024). His fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry have appeared in The Fiddlehead, EVENT, CV2, PRISM international and Vallum, among others. Originally from Manila, he lives with his wife and two children in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

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