
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.