Gillian Sze is a
writer and teacher. She is the author of multiple poetry collections,
including
Peeling Rambutan (Gaspereau Press, 2014),
Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks, 2015),
Panicle (ECW Press,
2017),
Quiet Night Think (ECW Press, 2022), which were all
finalists for the QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry [s ;
see my review here], and
An Orange, A Syllable (ECW Press, 2025) [see reviews via
Montreal Review of Books,
The Temz Review,
PRISM International,
The Seaboard Review of Books;
see my review here].
Interviews with Sze can be found online via All in a Weekend, with Sonali Karnick,
The Antigonish Review, by Rob Taylor, and
The Puritan, by Yilin Wang. She has also published
creative nonfiction, articles, interviews, and book reviews. Her writing for
children includes
The Night Is Deep and Wide (illustrated by Sue
Todd) and
My Love for You Is Always (illustrated by Michelle
Lee). Recent work can be found online at
Ricepaper,
Poetry Daily and through
The League of Canadian Poets, Sze's work has received awards such as the University of Winnipeg
Writers' Circle Prize, the 3Macs
carte blanche Prize, the QWF
A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
Her work has
also attained starred reviews from Quill & Quire, Publishers Weekly and
Kirkus
Reviews and has been translated into Slovenian, French, Italian,
Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Greek. She has served as a judge for a number of
national and international literary competitions, such as the Montreal
International Poetry Prize, the National Magazine Awards, the bpNichol Chapbook
Award, and the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. Originally from Winnipeg,
she now resides in Montreal where she teaches creative writing and literature
at Concordia University.
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