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Please book your editing session with either Tracy or Kyeren (not both) 24 hours in advance--the booking page will close on Nov 14th at noon.
Tracy and Kyeren are both experienced poetry editors, with MFA's in Writing. These editing sessions are based on the university office-hours model and will offer poets the opportunity to advance their craft by working on a single poem.
Please bring a poem up to 1.5 pages in length, as well as any questions you have about the poem.
We're looking forward to serving your poetry!
Tracy Wai de Boer (she/they) is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, and
Ph.D. candidate whose literary and visual work has been featured internationally.
Her book, Nostos, a collection of poetry and experimental photography, was published
in May with Palimpsest Press.
Tracy’s chapbook, maybe, basically, was published in 2020 with Anstruther Press and
was nominated for the bpNichol Award. She has co-authored multiple books
including Impact: Women Writing After Concussion, which won the Book Publishers of
Alberta Best Non-Fiction Award and was named one of CBC’s Best Non-Fiction Books
of the Year.
Tracy was shortlisted for Poet Laureate of the City of Victoria (2025-26) and was a
resident artist at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2017 and 2023.
Kyeren Regehr is an award-winning poet and writer with a background in professional dance and theatre. She is the author of Cult Life (finalist for the ReLit Awards and The Victoria Butler Book Prize) and Disassembling A Dancer (winner of the inaugural Raven Chapbooks contest), as well as two earlier chapbooks. Her poetry has been published in Canada, Australia, and the USA, and thrice-longlisted for the CBC Poetry Awards.
Kyeren holds MFA in Writing (earning the Victoria Medal for her BFA), and is a former poetry editor at The Malahat Review. She has mentored poets through The League of Canadian Poetry and The Writer’s Union of Canada, and taught in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria.
Kyeren is the Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry reading series, and is co-editing the anthology After: Poems in Dialogue with Zoe Dickinson, forthcoming with Caitlin Press. She's presently the Poet Laureate of Victoria and host of The Poet Laureate Podcast.