Fall 2024 Writer-in-Residence Introduction Reading: Sadiqa de Meijer

Sadiqa de Meijer‘s books include Leaving Howe Island (Governor General’s Award Finalist 2014), The Outer Wards (Raymond Souster Award finalist 2020), and alfabet/alphabet (Governor General’s Award Winner 2021). Her work, which often explores landscape, families, inner lives, and the long wakes of colonialism and migration, has received the CBC Poetry Prize, Arc’s Poem of the Year Award, the Jean Royce Fellowship, and other honours. It has been published internationally in Poetry Magazine, the Walrus, Brick Magazine, Poetry London, and anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry, the Best Canadian Essays, and the Dutch Turing Prize series. Her essay collection In The Field is forthcoming in 2025. She is the current Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston.