Junie Désil

Poet

Junie Désil

Junie Désil moderated a discussion with Roxane Gay s as part of the 2020 Thinking While Black series at UBC.

Junie Désil is a poet who has performed at various literary events and festivals. Her work has appeared in Room Magazine, PRISM International, The Capilano Review and CV2. Junie’s forthcoming debut poetry collection Eat Salt| Gaze At The Ocean will be published in 2020 by Talon Books. Junie currently works in a non-profit, women-serving organization on the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Unceded & Ancestral Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh territories) and lives on Qayqayt First Nation (New Westminster), juggling writing and life.

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