Speakers for this event

• Lishai Peel

  Lishai Peel

  Lishai Peel is an award winning writer and educator based in Hamilton. She has over a decade of experience working in the arts and culture sector, most recently, serving as the Executive Director for Hamilton’s Festival of Readers and Writers.Her essays and poems have been published by Book*hug Press, Room Magazine, Lilith Magazine, Hey Alma, Middleground Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Malahat Review, Illanot Review and others.Lishai holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Guelph University. By night, she writes poetry, and by day, she works in organizational leadership in the startup industry. She is proud to be Hamilton’s inaugural Poet in Place.

• Shahaddah Jack

  Shahaddah Jack

• Ziysah von Bieberstein

  Ziysah von Bieberstein

  Ziysah von Bieberstein is a poet, editor, and unsettled settler who finds home in queer, Jewish, and activist communities. As co-founder of Take-Out Poetry, ze curates teams of poets to serve up fresh, customized, typewritten poetry from a bicycle-drawn cart. Ziysah’s most recent collection, Consents +/=/- Severances, has been described as “ a necessary upheaval” and “an ecstatic kind of justice.” Ziysah is grateful to be living on Michi Saagiig Aanishinaabe territory where they are currently serving as Peterborough’s Poet Laureate.