About

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Jennifer Bowering Delisle is the author of Deriving (2021), a collection of poetry, and two books of lyric nonfiction: Micrographia (Fall 2023) and The Bosun Chair (2017). Her poetry and prose have been published in magazines and anthologies across North America.

She is a member of the board of NeWest Press, and regularly teaches creative writing classes and workshops. She is also the co-chair of the League of Canadian Poets’ Parenting Poets Committee.

She completed a PhD in English at the University of British Columbia in 2008, and is the author of The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013).

She lives in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory with her husband and two young children.