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Tanya
Evanson is an Antiguan-Canadian writer, performer, producer and educator from
Tiohtią:ke/Montreal. She presents spoken word internationally, has
released four audio recordings, including the recent ZENSHIP (2016 Mother Tongue Media), and is director of Banff Centre Spoken Word Program and ANU live art. Notable performances include Suoni
per il Popolo, Vancouver Writers Festival, Ottawa International
Writers' Festival, Ubud Writers Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival,
Edinburgh
Book Festival and Glastonbury Festival. Bothism (2017 Ekstasis Editions) is her first poetry collection and 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), and Resist Much/Obey Little (Dispatches Editions). She is a past recipient of the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret
Award and was Poet of Honour at the 2013 Canadian Festival of
Spoken Word. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.
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