Writers
Jennifer Still composes poems with physicality in the Red River Valley, Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She is of Red River Métis and mixed European ancestry in a family of homesteaders, trade labourers, druggists and CN Railway workers. Physical labour is important to her practice as she reimagines what a page can be and how a poem can be experienced. She illuminates her pages with pinholes, typewriters and carbon sheets into sparking, embodied languages of home.
She is the author of several handbound chapbooks and four poetry books, Comma (Book*hug 2017), Girlwood (Brick Books 2011), and Saltations (Thistledown 2005) and the long poem legs (Baseline Press 2022), winner of the Malahat Review long poem prize. In 2022, she collaborated with Winnipeg artists Christine Fellows and Chantel Mierau to adapt legs into an award-winning video poem.
She is Winnipeg’s 2025-26 Poet Laureate.