Chantal Gibson is a poet-artist-educator living on the lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her practice is grounded in materiality and research creation. Exhibited widely across Canada, her altered historical texts and installations imagine voices silenced by cultural and institutional erasure.
Gibson is the author of How She Read (Caitlin Press, 2019), a decolonial critique of the Canadian classroom centering Black womanhood. Currently on academic reading lists, this poetry collection won the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC) and the Pat Lowther Poetry Award (Can) and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2021, she published with/holding (Caitlin Press), a graphicpoetry response to the mis/representation of Blackness across media and technology.
Recipient of the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada’s highest award for post-secondary teaching, Gibson teaches in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University.
Website: http://chantalgibson.com
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