We are excited to welcome back the talented voices of UBC Okanagan MFA Poets! Join us Tuesday, February 25 at 7:00 pm Pacific for a Regional Spotlight featuring UBCO MFA Poets with host Meaghan Hackinen and readers:
- Jesse Norman
- Nicholas Kucher
- Meghan Reyda-Molnar
- Slava Bart
- Amy Wang
Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a link will be sent to you. When it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. We look forward to seeing you there!
Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm!
*This event will be recorded.
Jesse Norman was born in Comox on the unceded territory of the K’ómoks First Nation. He mostly writes poetry but also adores the mediums of short fiction, graphic prose, and film. His poetry is published in The Malahat Review, Unlost: a journal of found poetry & art, and CV2. He was the 2022 recipient of the Philip Pickering Award in Poetry. He’s currently an MFA student at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), living and working on Sylix territory.
Nicholas Kucher is a queer poet operating from within the Okanagan Valley, originally hailing from the docks and shores of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. His work attempts to reconcile the constructed and the natural, finding the parity between the structural organization of society and the uncompromising wild beyond. After securing a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia Okanagain, he is back once again as he pursues his Masters of Fine Arts.
Meghan Reyda-Molnar is a poet currently residing on the land of the Syilx/Sw̓ kʷnaʔqin people, having moved to pursue an MFA at UBC Okanagan. Their work has been published in The Malahat Review, This Side of West and Dyke News.
Slava Bart is a second-year international MFA student at UBCO. He comes from Israel and enjoys multilingual and collaborative writing with a penchant for venturing deep into the past and far into the future, reaching across borders and disciplines, to promote community and peace. His thesis in poetry reinterprets the books of Genesis and Exodus using multiple languages to tell a personal story of the loss of home after the collapse of the USSR.
Amy Wang is a second-year MFA student whose work focuses on intersectionality within Chinese-Canadian experience. Funded by SSHRC and the BC Arts Council, you can find Amy’s writing in That’s What [We] Said, Paper Shell, The Goose, and more.
Meaghan Hackinen (FBCW host): is a bike-obsessed bookworm on a lifelong hunt for exceptional cycling routes, both on and off the pavement. Her cross-continental bike race memoir, Shifting Gears, was released by NeWest Press in 2023. Find her online: meaghanhackinen.com
