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
essay
the “ON:_____” essay series in SPAM zine&press
[part 1] ON: procrastination
[part 2] ON: beginnings
[part 3] ON: the occasional necessity of utter unhappiness
[part 4] ON: being as such….and listening to Masha Gessen
[part 5] ON: this mug
[part 6] ON: democracy
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
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