Photo by Josh Davidson.
Lise Gaston is a writer, academic, and teacher.
Her first poetry collection, Cityscapes in Mating Season (Signature Editions), was named one of the ten “must-read” books of 2017 by the League of Canadian Poets. Her poetry, creative non-fiction, essays, and reviews have been published in journals across Canada, the US, and Ireland, and in Best Canadian Poetry. She is the winner of the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize.
Lise received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2019, and also holds MAs in English/Creative Writing from Berkeley and Concordia, and a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Victoria.
She has taught classes in Eighteenth-century and Victorian Literature, Women’s Writing, Adaptation, Pedagogy, Rhetoric & Composition, and Creative Writing at Concordia, Berkeley, and the University of British Columbia.
Originally from Fredericton NB, and Victoria, BC, Lise currently lives in North Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territory of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, with her husband, daughter, and dog, Mr. Darcy.
Photograph by Jason Jobin.