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Liz Howard, M.F.A
Pronouns: she/her
- Assistant Professor, English
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Biography
Biography
Liz Howard is a poet, editor, and teacher. Her work explores Anishinaabe ways of knowing, cosmology, ecology, and the liberatory potentials of language as art. Her first collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Poetry Prize. She has completed creative writing and Indigenous arts residencies at the University of Toronto, the rare Charitable Research Reserve, University of Winnipeg, McGill University, University of Calgary, UBC Okanagan, Douglas College, Sheridan College, and for The Capilano Review. Her work has been performed and published internationally, and has been translated into French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario (Chapleau), she is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage (reconnecting to Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation, Robinson-Huron).Education
MFA, Creative Writing, University of GuelphBSc (Hons), Psychology, University of Toronto
Teaching activities
Courses
ENGL 672 Graduate Poetry Workshop
ENGL 429 Creative Citizenship
Research activities
Research Interests
Publications
Books
2021: Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, McClelland and Stewart
2015: Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, McClelland and Stewart
2011: Skullambient (chapbook), Ferno House Press
Anthologies
forthcoming:“Letter from Halifax” in Environmental and Nature Writing, A Writer’s Guideand Anthology, Second Edition. Eds Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins.Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, New York, NY.
2021:“True Value” in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2021. Biblioasis, Windsor, ON.
2020:“Boreal Swing,” “Contact,” “Anarchaeology of Lichen,” “Knausgaard, NovaScotia,” An Anthology of IndigenousLiteratures in English: Voices from Canada, Fifth Edition, Eds ArmandGarnet Ruffo and Katherena Vermette. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University PressCanada, 2020.
2019: Chapter: “Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry” in Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries. Wilfred LaurierPress, Waterloo, ON.
2019:“Our Boreal Roots: Armand Garnet Ruffo and Liz Howard” in What the Poets Are Doing Canadian Poets inConversation. Nightwood Editions. Gibsons, BC.
2018:“As If Our Future Past Bore A BadAlgorithm” in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018.Tightrope Books, Toronto, ON.
Artistic performances
Selected past events
April 17th, 2024: LunchPoems, Simon Frasier University, online.
April13th, 2024:Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading, Vancouver, BC.
March 8th, 2023:Victoria College Faculty Reading, Toronto, ON.
March 7th, 2023:Canadian Writers in Person, York University, online.
February 25th, 2023: DesireLines. Lecture de poésie avec Liz Howard. Artexte/Atwater PoetryProject, Montreal, QC.
February 15th, 2023:Writers Read, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
January 27th, 2023: ArtsEverywhere Festival,Guelph, ON.
January 18th, 2023: Lecture “AgainstAssimilation: Anticolonial Poetics, Cosmology, and the Shaking Tent,” VictoriaCollege, Toronto, ON.
November 18th, 2022: RiddleFest, St. John’s,NL.
October 6th-8th, 2022:11th Biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival (six readings), La Conner,Washington, USA.
July 12th, 2022: 19thTriennial ACLALS Conference, Toronto, ON.
May 25th, 2022: The Brooklin Rail’s 87thRadical Poetry Reading, online.
December 9th, 2021:Jason Collett’s Basement Revue, Toronto, ON.
October 22nd, 2021:Vancouver Writers Festival, online.
June 3rd, 2021: BorderCrossing’s Origins Festival (UK), online.
October 19th, 2019: TheModernist Studies Annual Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
October 17th, 2019:Poets House, New York, NY, USA.
September 25th, 2019:The Poetry Project, New York, NY, USA.
May 3rd, 4th, 5th,2019: Blue Metropolis Festival, Montreal, QC.
April 27th, 2019:National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.