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Liz Howard is a poet, editor, and teacher whose work explores Anishinaabe ways of knowing, cosmology, ecology, and the liberatory potentials of language and art. Her collection, 'Infinite Citizen Shaking Tent', won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Another of her collections, 'Letters Bruised Cosmos', was shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Poetry Prize. Howard has completed creative writing residencies in Indigenous arts across various universities including the University of Toronto, the University of Winnipeg, and McGill University. Her work has been performed and published internationally, and translated into French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish. She was born and raised in Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario, has mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage, and is reconnecting with the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek Nation.
Administered by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; focuses on cinematic arts practice and research-creation.