Jen Currin has published five books, most recently Hider/Seeker: Stories, a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book, and School, a finalist for three awards. A white settler of mostly Western European ancestry, Jen lives on the unceded ancestral territories of the Qayqayt, Musqueam, and Kwantlen First Nations (New Westminster, BC), and teaches writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Jen’s poem “The Local” can be read on our website at http://canlit.ca/article/the-local/
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.