Contributors

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Host

Kyeren Regehr

Kyeren Regehr is an award-winning poet and writer with a background in professional dance and theatre. She is the author of Cult Life (finalist for the ReLit Awards and the Victoria Butler Book Prize) and Disassembling A Dancer (winner of the inaugural Raven Chapbooks contest), as well as two earlier chapbooks. Her poetry has been published in Canada, Australia and in the USA, and has been thrice-longlisted for CBC Poetry Awards, and more.  


Kyeren served as a poetry editor at Canada’s iconic literary journal, The Malahat Review and holds a BFA & MFA Writing (recipient of the Victoria Medal). She’s the 5th Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry reading series and is editing the anthology After: Poems in Dialogue, forthcoming with Caitlin Press in 2026. 


Kyeren is the 7th Poet Laureate of Victoria and has lived on the unceded homelands of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ for over twenty years.  

https://www.kyerenregehr.ca/
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Editor

Jordan Dack, Haus of Owl


Supporting artists to create the best work of their careers.

A Co-working Club for Creators. A Production Haus for disruptors. In the heart of Victoria BC, Canada 


www.hausofowl.com


What happens when Artists from multiple disciplines are given the inspiration to create, the studio environments to capture that creation, and the community to share their creation with, all under one roof?


Haus of Owl exists to support the creative spirit, hunger, and process of artists in the world of music, film, fashion, photography and dance. This curated community consists of Membership options that span from Drop-In Artist to Dedicated Creator with in-house recording and film studios supported by a collective of industry pros.

Guests

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Guest

Lorri Neilsen Glenn

Lorri Neilsen Glenn is the author and contributing editor of fifteen titles of poetry, creative nonfiction and scholarly work, including her latest work, The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Known and Been (Nimbus). Halifax’s first Métis Poet Laureate, she was a recipient of Halifax's Women of Excellence award, has had appointments as Writer in Residence across Canada and served as President of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Lorri has mentored writers across Canada and in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Greece, and Chile. She divides her time between Halifax and Rose Bay, Nova Scotia. 

https://ukings.ca/people/lorri-neilsen-glenn/