Meredith Grace Thompson

writer editor critic


(she/they)
white settler born in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB)

MLitt in Creative Writing: Glasgow University, Scotland (2019)
BA in Philosophy and English Literature: Concordia University, Montréal (2014)

editor of BlueHouse Journal
contributing reviewer for Cloud Lake Literary
production coordinator NeWest Press

accessibility work

TREX: Careful Spaces - translation of visual art to alt text as poetry for visually impaired viewers The Art Gallery of Grand Prairie 2022


books/pamphlets

A Topology of Being Invisible Hand Press 2022
Procrastinación Queltehue-Ediciones 2020


 poetry/hybrid

a truism
I paint a series of five paintings
**Featured Poet The Broken Spine Artist Collective 5

there is a dead mouse in the corner Lemon Peel Press issue #1: Disgust

why do i hesitate to cut my fingernails
poetry requires intellectual freedom
Daughterhood zine issue #3

[I am eighteen years old] Skirting Around Magazine issue #2

the hammer SPAM 002

I try writing a poem in the second person -algia Magazine issue #3

A Phenomenology of Egdon Heath in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native: in Four parts -algia Magazine issue #2

I Had a Tail Once Hwearf Journal Vol. 1

the cat is angry
i have a revulsion for all things which i consider to be false
until
SPAM press&zine: The Apprentice Anthology

Dorothy Parker’s Gin Reunion: The Dallas Review Vol. 9

I Was Born on a Prairie, Glasses Xylem/Phloem

x3 untitled fragments The Pocket Library

The Graveyard Behind My Teeth GNU Journal

Pennies Her Heart Poetry

Buddy The Drabble



exhibition

Postcards for Solidarity, Scottish Interfaith Week, curated by Iman Tajik and Loll Jung


work in translation

Procrastinación (Spanish translation of ON: procrastination) Queltehue-Ediciones


reviews

Marie-Andrée Gill, Spawn (Book*hug Press, 2020) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Tara McGowan-Ross, Scorpion Season (Insomniac Press, 2019) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Sabrina Benaim, I Love You, Call Me Back (Doubleday Canada, 2021) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Jean-Phillipe Cyr, The Buddhist Chef’s Vegan Comfort Cooking (Appetite by Random House) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Max Porter, The Death of Francis Bacon (Strange Light, 2021) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Lisa Bird-Wilson, Probably Ruby (Doubleday Canada, 2021) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Sally Armstrong, The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor (Penguin Random House, 2007) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Fawn Parker, Set Point (ARP Books, 2019) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Sean Wai Keung, sikfan glaschu (Verve Poetry Press, 2021) review in Gutter 24

Billy Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body (Penguin Random House, 2020) review in Cloud Lake Literary

Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Flamingo, 1992) review in BlueHouse Journal

Jaye Simpson, it was never going to be okay (Nightwood Editions, 2020) review in SPAM zine&press

T.Person, Cymbalism & Lemonade (SPAM Press, 2020) review in SPAM zine&press

Tawyna Selene Renelle, This Exquisite Corpse (Calenture Press, 2019) review in SPAM zine&press

Wayne Holloway-Smith, Gravy (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2019) review in SPAM zine&press

assorted music/film/theatre reviews SOUND + NOISE

assorted album reviews SEE Magazine

assorted theatre reviews Edmonton Journal


awards

Long-listed for the 2020 Vallum Award for Poetry