Kelly Norah Drukker
Kelly Norah Drukker is the author of Small Fires, a collection of poems published by the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series of McGill-Queen’s University Press (2016). Born in Montreal, she grew up in the Laurentian region of Quebec, and has worked and taught English in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, and France. Her poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in The Malahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The Island Review, The SHOp, enRoute Magazine, the Literary Review of Canada, Headlight Anthology, Room Magazine, Poetry New Zealand, carte blanche, and The Montreal Prize Longlist Anthology. In 2006, her suite of poems “Still Lives” won second prize in the CBC Literary Awards, and an abridged version was aired on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. Her work has received a Norma Epstein Prize for Creative Writing (2013), and has been longlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (2011). A frequent performer at several reading series in Montreal, she has also been featured on CBC Radio’s Cinque à Six, CJAD’s The Irish Show, and CKUT’s JPM Literary Report.
Kelly holds a Master’s degree in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University. She has studied with The Humber School for Writers, and has participated in writing residencies at The Banff Centre and Sage Hill. She currently lives in Montreal, where she is pursuing a doctorate in Humanities at Concordia University.
