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jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer who is non-binary and whose roots hail from the Sapotaweyak, Keeseekoose & Skownan Cree Nations. They are published in several magazines including Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Magazine: Green, GUTS Magazine, SubTerrain, Grain and Room. They are in two anthologies: Hustling Verse (2019) and Love After the End (2020). Her first book of poetry, it was never going to be okay (Nightwood $18.95), was shortlisted for a 2021 Indigenous Voices award as well as a 2021 Relit award.
simpson self-describes as a displaced Indigenous person "resisting, ruminating and residing" on Musqueam, Tsleil-waututh and Squamish First Nations territories. Having attended Thompson Rivers University and Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, simpson draws inspiration from two-spirit B.C. writers such as Billy-Ray Belcourt, Emily Riddle, Brandi Bird, and Arielle Twist. Since then, simpson’s work has been performed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. In addition, simpson was named the Vancouver champion for the Women of the World Poetry Slam. simpson has attended Thompson Rivers University and British Columbia's Aboriginal public post-secondary institute in Merritt, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, with a campus also in Burnaby.
BOOKS:
it was never going to be okay (Nightwood 2020) $18.95 978-0-88971-382-6
PHOTO: Divya Nanray
[BCBW 2020] ILMBC2
simpson self-describes as a displaced Indigenous person "resisting, ruminating and residing" on Musqueam, Tsleil-waututh and Squamish First Nations territories. Having attended Thompson Rivers University and Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, simpson draws inspiration from two-spirit B.C. writers such as Billy-Ray Belcourt, Emily Riddle, Brandi Bird, and Arielle Twist. Since then, simpson’s work has been performed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. In addition, simpson was named the Vancouver champion for the Women of the World Poetry Slam. simpson has attended Thompson Rivers University and British Columbia's Aboriginal public post-secondary institute in Merritt, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, with a campus also in Burnaby.
BOOKS:
it was never going to be okay (Nightwood 2020) $18.95 978-0-88971-382-6
PHOTO: Divya Nanray
[BCBW 2020] ILMBC2
