Janet Pollock
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Credentials
BA (Hons.) (SFU), Dipl. Ed. (McGill), Cert. in Editing (SFU), TESL Cert. (Winnipeg), DELF B2 (France)
Area of expertise
Poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, essays, criticism.
Janet (she/her) has made her home in Victoria, on the territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, since 2017. She is an educator, editor, and multi-genre writer currently working on her first collections of poetry and short fiction. Exploring topics such as the natural world, relationships, and human rights, Janet writes to render the world as it is and to nudge it toward what it could be. Her work has appeared in Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, The Ex-Puritan, Room, Herizons, and elsewhere. She currently volunteers as a first reader with Event and as a fiction intern with The Malahat Review. Janet works in the Writing Centre at Camosun College.