Jessica Popeski

Jessica Popeski is a dis/abled opera singer, professor, and internationally published, intersectional ecofeminist poet. Her work can be found in carte blanche, Room, Hart House Review, Riddle Fence, The Woven Tale Press, Grain, swamp pink, Best Canadian Poetry 2027, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, filling Station, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards, and was named one of Tkaronto’s “exceptional up and coming writers” by Open Book. She authored Oratorio and The Wrong Place with Anstruther Press, and the problem with having a body and grenoside with Gordon Hill Press. She was raised, for the most part, in Moscow, Russia, and Sheffield, England, by her mother and grandmother, and lives with her pitbull-poodle rescue, Maggie, 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.