Lunch Poems presents Leanne Dunic & Jane Shi (In Person)

May's Lunch Poems reading at SFU Harbour Centre features poets Leanne Dunic and Jane Shi.

Leanne Dunic is the winner of the 2015 Alice Munro Short Story prize and the fiction editor at the Tahoma Literary Review.

Her writing has been described as genre-fluid, experimental, poignant, provocative, elegant, and brutal. If there is a unifying aspect to her diverse work as an artist, it’s a persistent interest in crossing boundaries, both in terms of form and content. As a biracial, bisexual woman, she’s spent her life navigating liminal spaces, inspiring her to produce trans-media projects such her novel in micro-chapters, To Love the Coming End (Book*hug/Chin Music Press 2017,) and her short story and companion album, The Gift (Book*hug 2019). Her most recent book is a poetic memoir with music entitled, One and Half of You (Talonbooks 2021). Her verse-novel with photographs, Wet, is forthcoming spring 2024.

Leanne is the leader of the band The Deep Cove. She holds an MFA in Lyric from the University of British Columbia and is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She lives on the unceded and occupied traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh people.

Jane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility Blog,The Offing, andQueer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press), among others. She is the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022) and the winner ofThe Capilano Review’s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest. Her debut poetry collection echolalia echolalia comes out October 2024 with Brick Books. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched and bodies are not violated.

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