About
River Halen is an
award-winning, transgender writer of Catalan and Danish descent living in
Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. 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. Their first book, Match,
was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and their most recent
book, Dream Rooms, a collection of essays and poems, includes works selected for Best Canadian Essays.
River has been a full-time freelance arts worker since 2011, editing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for large and small presses. They are an acquiring editor for Brick Books and teach sessionally in the Toronto Metropolitan 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 an acquiring editor for Brick Books and teach sessionally in the Toronto Metropolitan University publishing program.