Gwen Aube
Gwen Aube is a working-class writer living in Montreal. Her work has appeared in publications including The Gay & Lesbian Review, The New Orleans Review, and Contemporary Verse 2. She is a 2026 Al Purdy A-Frame artist-in-residence and was a 2025 artist-in-residence with the Ontario Heritage Council. Aube was a finalist for the PEN Canada New Voices Award.
Writers & Books
Award History
2026 - Finalist
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
forMissed Connections with Tall Girls
Jury Citation
“With ferocious wit, tenderness, and a punk refusal of respectability, Gwen Aube turns working-class colloquialism, trans slang, internet vernacular, gossip, prayer, and street speech into a poetics entirely her own. Missed Connections with Tall Girls is riotous and meticulously made: a book whose DIY energy is shaped by precise rhythms, deft tonal shifts, and startling images. Writing from within a lineage of trans women’s literature, Aube creates an unruly communal archive of girls, lovers, strangers, mentors, and ghosts, insisting on trans life as already abundant with culture, history, humour, and sacredness. This is a singular voice — brash, intimate, uncompromising, and utterly alive.”—2026 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (francesca ekwuyasi, Kama La Mackerel, Michael V. Smith)Works Recognized by WT