nina jane drystek (she/her) is a poet, writer and performer based in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. she is author of a:of:in (Gapriot Press, 2021) and knewro suite (Simulacrum Press, 2019), received an honourable mention in the 2022 Priscilla Uppal Memorial Award for poetry and was shortlisted for the 2020 Bronwen Wallace Emerging Writers Award for Poetry. her poems have appeared in several online and print magazines, as well as in self-published chapbooks and broadsides and her sound poetry can be heard on Bandcamp and YouTube under the name textcurious. nina jane is one of the co-founders of Riverbed Reading Series, writes collaboratively with VII – authors of holy disorder of being (Gap Riot, 2022) and Towers (Collusion Books, 2021) – and performs sound poetry with a rotating group of collaborators. if you have ever lived in the same city as her you have likely seen her riding a red or blue bicycle.
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