Event Speaker: A. Gregory Frankson

A. GREGORY (GREG) FRANKSON is a Toronto-based educator, consultant, public speaker, and award-winning literary artist. He edited and contributed to the critically acclaimed AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets, appears in six anthologies, and published four poetry collections. He was previously the poet laureate of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership and resident poet on CBC Radio One’s Here and Now Toronto. His writings have appeared in numerous literary, digital, and journalistic publications. Greg’s debut full-length work of creative nonfiction, Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters, was released by Dundurn Press in January 2025.