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Tanya
Evanson is an Antiguan-Canadian writer, performer and educator from
Tiohtią:ke/Montreal. A graduate of Concordia University Creative
Writing and director of The Banff Centre Spoken Word Program, she has released four audio recordings including her latest project ZENSHIP
(Mother Tongue Media 2016) which has been performed internationally as
a solo and group piece at
Suoni per il Popolo, Black Speculative Arts Montreal, Banff Centre,
Ubud Writers Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Edinburgh
Book Festival and Glastonbury Festival. After self-publishing six
artist books, Bothism (2017) is Evanson's first poetry collection with Ekstasis Editions and a second, Nouveau Griot, is forthcoming from Frontenac House in 2018. Recent publications include Arc Poetry Magazine, WSQ Feminist Press, Making Room-40 Years of Room Magazine (Caitlin Press), Resist Much/Obey Little (Dispatches Edition) and Where the Night are Twice as Long
(Goose Lane). A past recipient of the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret
Award, she was also Poet of Honour at the 2013 Canadian Festival of
Spoken Word and moonlights as a whirling dervish.
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