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Photo credit
Mike Deal
Ariel Gordon
BIO
Biography

Ariel Gordon (she/her)  is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer. She is the author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press. Gordon co-edited, with Tanis MacDonald and Rosanna Deerchild, the anthology GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times (Frontenac House, 2018). 2019 saw the publication of Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019), a collection of essays that combines science writing and the personal essay. It received an honourable mention for the 2020 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing and was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award at the Manitoba Book Awards. Her most recent book is TreeTalk (At Bay Press, fall 2020), a public poetry project where Ariel hangs poems in trees and asks passersby to add their thoughts, ideas, and secrets. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at the University of Manitoba's Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.

ADDRESS
City: Winnipeg, Province/Territory: Manitoba
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
TreeTalk
Publisher
At Bay Press
Year
2020
Title
Treed: Walking Canada's Urban Forests
Publisher
Wolsk & Wynn
Year
2019
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Shorlisted
Name
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award at the Manitoba Book Awards
Publication
TreeTalk
Year
2021
Name
Honourable Mention
Name
Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing (ALECC)
Publication
Treed
Year
2020
Name
Shorlisted
Name
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award at the Manitoba Book Awards
Publication
Treed
Year
2020
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PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
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