Writer-in-residence

Mercedes Eng

Mercedes Eng is the author of Mercenary English, a poem about sex work, violence, and resistance in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and my yt mama, which documents a childhood lived under white supremacy in Canadian prairies. Her writing has appeared in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry, Jacket 2, Asian American Literary Review, The Capilano Review, The Abolitionist, r/ally (No One Is Illegal), and Survaillance and M’aidez (Press Release). Mercedes teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she also organizes the On Edge reading series, and is an incoming 2023 Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She is dreaming and planting towards the destruction of carceral systems.

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