Liz Howard is a poet, editor, and teacher. Her work explores Anishinaabe ways of knowing, cosmology, ecology, and the liberatory potentials of language as art. Her first collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Poetry Prize. Her work has been performed and published internationally, and has been translated into French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario (Chapleau), she is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage (reconnecting to Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation, Robinson-Huron). She currently resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Concordia University.
