Event Speaker: Jessica Popeski

Jessica Popeski is a dis/abled opera singer, professor, and intersectional ecofeminist poet. Named one of Tkaronto’s “exceptional up and coming writers” by Open Book, she authored “Oratorio” and “The Wrong Place” with Anstruther Press. “the problem with having a body” was published with Gordon Hill Press, and “grenoside” is forthcoming in Fall 2026. She was raised in Moscow, Russia, and Sheffield, England, by her mother and grandmother, and lives with her pitbull-poodle on land which is covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties, the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.