Moni Brar

Moni Brar (she/her) was born in rural India and raised in northern British Columbia on the land of the Tse’Khene peoples. She is the winner of the 2022 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, and the recipient of multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poetry has garnered awards and honours from PRISM international, Grain, Room, The Ex-Puritan, Arc, Blood Orange Review, and Subnivean. Her creative work explores the interrelation of time, place and identity in the immigrant experience, diasporic guilt, and the legacy of transgenerational trauma resulting from colonization. She is inspired by those who take an oppositional stance and work towards dismantling western frameworks of race, culture, and identity. Her writing appears in Best Canadian Poetry, The Literary Review of Canada, Passages North, Prairie Fire, and Hobart, among others. She is an alum of Tin House, The Banff Centre, and The Humber School for Writers. She believes art contains the possibility of healing.