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Bren Simmers
Canadian poet (born 1976)
Bren Simmers is a Canadian poet and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn 2010),[1] Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions 2015),[2] and If, When (Gaspereau Press 2021).[3] She is also the author of Pivot Point (Gaspereau Press 2019),[4] a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia.
Born in Vancouver, she studied writing at the University of Victoria and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is the winner of 2022 CBC Poetry Prize[5] for Spell World Backwards, a collection of poems inspired by how Alzheimer's affects language. Her book Hastings-Sunrise was a finalist for the 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award.[6] She is also the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award,[7] a finalist for The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize,[8] and was a finalist for the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. She lives on Prince Edward Island.