Shannon Webb-Campbell
Montreal-based poet launching her new collection, I Am A Body Of Land.
Shannon Webb-Campbell is a mixed-Indigenous (Mi’kmaq) settler poet, writer and critic currently based in Montreal. Her first book,
Still No Word (2015) was the inaugural recipient of Egale Canada’s Out In Print Award. She was Canadian Women in the Literary Arts Critic-in-Residence in 2014, and sits on the Canadian Women In the Literary Arts board of directors. Her work has appeared in many anthologies, journals and publications across Canada including
The Globe and Mail, Geist Magazine, The Malahat Review, Canadian Literature, Room, and
Quill and Quire. In 2017 she facilitated a book club-style reading of The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada at Atwater Library in Montreal; she also championed Carol Danie’s novel
Bearskin Diary for CBC Montreal’s Turtle Island Reads.
I Am a Body of Land is her latest book.