Jocelyn Parr

Jocelyn Parr is the author of Uncertain Weights and Measures, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Governor General’s Prize for English language Fiction, the Kobo Emerging Writing Prize, the 2019 Dublin Literary Award and won the QWF Concordia University First Book Prize. She has a PhD in English literature and is co-founder of Reading to Decolonize, a public education project that ran for three years until it met its demise during the pandemic. Her writing has appeared in Brick, Grain, Geist, the Montreal Review of Books, MOMUS, and internationally. She was born in New Zealand, grew up on the West Coast and is based in Tiotiah:ke (Montreal) where she lives with her family and teaches history at Dawson College.