Rachel McCrum

Rachel McCrum is from Northern Ireland and has lived in Québec since 2017. Her first collection, The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018), was published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in 2020 as Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales. With spoken word artist Amélie Prévost, she co-wrote and co-performs in La belle-mère / The Stepmother. The show had its premiere in Montreal in September 2024 and has toured in Canada, Ireland and the UK, and is published in a bilingual edition with L’Hexagone. Rachel is the vocalist for poetry-noise group Pigs&Wolves.