Jami Macarty

Jami Macarty teaches contemporary poetry and creative writing at Simon Fraser University, serves as a Poetry Ambassador for Vancouver's Poet Laureate, edits the online poetry journal The Maynard, and writes Peerings & Hearings--Occasional Musings on Arts in the City of Glass, a blog series for Drunken Boat. A recipient of fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Banff Center, and BC Arts Council, and the winner of the 2016 Real Good Poem prize, her poems appear or are forthcoming in Arc Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Minola Review, Prism international, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Vallum, and Verse Daily. Her chapbook Landscape of the Wait, a poetic response to her nephew William’s car accident and year-long coma, is forthcoming in 2017 with Finishing Line Press.