Junie Désil

Junie Désil is a poet. Born of immigrant (Haitian) parents on the traditional territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka on the island known as Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), she was raised in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg). Junie’s debut poetry collection, eat salt | gaze at the ocean (Talonbooks, 2020), was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Junie currently lives on the traditional territories of the Homalco, Tla’amin, and Klahoose, where she is currently working on a novel and a poetry manuscript.


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