This February’s Featured Poets: Randy Lundy and Selina Boan
Award-winning writer Randy Lundy is Cree, Irish, and Norwegian and is a member of the Barren Lands First Nation, Brochet, MB, in Treaty 10 territory. He has published four books of poetry, most recently Field Notes for the Self (2020) and Blackbird Song(2018) with the University of Regina Press, where he currently serves as editor for the Oskana Poetry and Poetics series. His poems have been widely anthologized, in Canada and abroad. In 2020, Randy joined the English Department at University of Toronto, Scarborough.
Selina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw writer living on the traditional, unceded territories of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Her debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, was published in Spring 2021 by Nightwood Editions. Her work has been published widely, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She has received several honours, including the 2017 National Magazine Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2020 CBC poetry award.
Ellie Sawatzky is a writer from Kenora, Ontario. A finalist for the 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and the recipient of CV2’s 2017 Foster Poetry Prize, she has been published widely in literary journals such as Grain, The Fiddlehead, PRISM International, The Matador Review, The Puritan and Room. She works as an editor for FriesenPress, and is the curator of the Instagram account IMPROMPTU 
shauna paull is a poet, educator and community advocate, who completed her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. Paull’s first book, roughened in undercurrent, was published by Leaf Press in 2008. Since 2000, shauna has led creative writing workshops at many different organizations in greater Vancouver, including the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on the ancestral, unceded territories of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation. In community, shauna has worked extensively with migrant and refugee women in the areas of labour and mobility rights, poverty alleviation and legislative reform. Shauna represented Canada at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2006. Her work can be found in RockSalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry (Mother Tongue, 2008), Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia (Mother Tongue, 2013) and In All the Spaces: Diverse Voices in Global Women’s Poetry (Autopress, New Delhi, 2020).