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Anna Lee-Popham

 

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Anna
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Lee-Popham
 

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Biography
Anna Lee-Popham is a poet, writer, and editor in Tkaronto (Toronto). She holds an MFA Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education Creative Writing Certificate, where she received the Janice Colbert Poetry Award. Her writing has been first runner-up in PRISM international’s Pacific Poetry Prize, shortlisted for The Fiddlehead Creative Nonfiction Contest and Room's Poetry Contest, and longlisted for the CBC nonfiction prize, and has been published or is forthcoming in Arc, Brick, Canthius, Riddle Fence, and Room, as well as Autostraddle and Lingue e Linguaggi. Her debut poetry collection, Empires of the Everyday, was published by McClelland & Stewart in Spring 2024.
 

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Books and other publications
2024. Lee-Popham, Anna. Empires of the Everyday. McClelland & Stewart.
2024. Lee-Popham, Anna. “Empires of the Everyday: Translating Relationship to the State into Resistance through a Feminist Praxis of Poetry,” Lingue e Linguaggi. Volume title: Translation and Interpreting as Sites of Agency and Activism: Acts of Resistance and Change.
2024. Lee-Popham, Anna. “How Can You Write Poetry If You Don’t Come Outside?” Bad Artist Anthology, Penizen.
2023. Lee-Popham, Anna. “In These Malignant Hours,” Brick, issue 112, Winter.
2022. Lee-Popham, Anna. “The City’s Geography of Graffiti,” Arc, issue 98, Summer.
2022. Lee-Popham, Anna. “To the End of Redaction,” PRISM international, Feb. 28.
2022. Lee-Popham, Anna. “To the Problem of Resistance,” Riddle Fence, issue 43, Winter.
2021. Lee-Popham, Anna. “Tonight May Be,” Canthius, Apr. 20.
2021. Lee-Popham, Anna. “Surprise Porn and Hospital Parties: The Queer and Trans Pleasure in Marty Fink’s ‘Forget Burial,’” Autostraddle, Feb. 24.
2020. Lee-Popham, Anna. “Hungering,” emerge20: The Writer’s Studio Anthology.
2020. Lee-Popham, Anna. “Social Distancing: Day 5,” emerge20: The Writer’s Studio Anthology.
Awards and other achievements
AWARDS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES
2022. Shortlist, “Mining for the Metropole,” Room Magazine Poetry Prize.
2022. Longlist, “Meanwhile the City Enlists a Prison,” Room Magazine Poetry Prize.
2022. Longlist, “In the Hours After,” CBC Nonfiction Prize.
2022, June. Self-directed residency, Artscape Gibraltor Point, Toronto.
2021. Second prize, “To the End of Redaction,” Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, PRISM international (judged by Cecily Nicholson).
2021. Shortlist, “In the Hours After,” Creative Nonfiction Contest, The Fiddlehead (judged by Chelene Knight).
2020 – 2021. Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Excellence Award, Elements of Creative Writing, College of Arts, University of Guelph.
2020 – 2021. Nancy Bailey Graduate Teaching Prize, Elements of Creative Writing, College of Arts, University of Guelph.
Poetic forms and styles
  • Long poem
  • Print poetry
  • Prose poetry
Other writing expertise
  • Creative non-fiction
Translations
English, French
 

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Anna Lee-Popham
annaleepopham@gmail.com

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Editorial services
  • Poetry manuscript evaluation
  • Poetry manuscript editing
  • Individual poem editing
  • Non-fiction editing
  • One-on-one mentoring