About
River Halen Guri is a queer non-binary writer and editor of Catalan and Danish descent living on unceded
Indigenous land in Tio'tia:ke (Montreal, Canada). Their poems and essays
dealing with relation, ecology, transformation, and sexuality have been published
widely in Canada, as well as in the U.S., Australia, and in translation in
Japan. They are the author of Match (Coach House, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for
Poetry, and the forthcoming collection Dream Rooms (Bookhug, 2022). Chapbooks include Microphone Lessons for Poets (Bookhug, 2015), Some Animals and Their Housing Situations (The Elephants, 2018), and I looked for the exit, found a sleeve (Skyebound Press, 2019).
River has been a full-time freelance arts worker since 2011, editing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for large and small presses. They are a member of the new Brick Books editorial board and teach sessionally in the X University publishing program.
River has been a full-time freelance arts worker since 2011, editing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for large and small presses. They are a member of the new Brick Books editorial board and teach sessionally in the X University publishing program.
