Intro
Christine Lowther is an author, poet and editor whose prose and poetry have been published in Counterflow, The Goose, The Malahat Review, subTerrain, Poetry is Dead, Other Voices, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Room, and WordWorks. She lives and writes with gratitude in the unceded territory of the ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) nation. Christine’s piece “Environmental Services” was shortlisted for the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Her work appears in anthologies including Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds, Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times, Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia, and Locations of Grief: an Emotional Geography. Chris lived for three months as writer-in-residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver BC, and won the inaugural Rainy Coast Arts Award for Significant Accomplishment from the Pacific Rim Arts Society in Tofino. Her essay "The Shaking Man" won first prize in the Federation of British Columbia Writers' Literary Writes, nonfiction category. Christine was Poet Laureate of Tofino for the 2020-2022 term. She now serves on the Selection Committee of Tofino's Poet Laureate Working Group. Christine's newest poetry collection, Hazard, Home, launched with Caitlin Press on February 2nd, 2024. Check out her books below!
Yippee! Am off to get one. So what are you working on now? I want some of your stellar nonfiction about Clayoquot Sound and your journey - any hope?
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