Jillian Christmas

Jillian Christmas is a queer, afro-caribbean writer living on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam people (Vancouver, BC). Jillian works as an artist, educator, curator and consultant, including as a speaker coordinator for Cicely Blain Consulting, long-time Spoken word curator of the Vancouver Writers Fest and former artistic director of Verses Festival of Words. She has won numerous Grand Poetry Slam Championship titles and represented both Toronto and Vancouver at 11 national poetry events, notably breaking ground as the first Canadian to perform on the final stage of the Women of the World Poetry Slam. She is the author of The Gospel of Breaking (Arsenal Pulp Press 2020).