Margaret Christakos

Margaret Christakos is a poet, writer, image-maker, and poetry mentor. Her body of work includes twelve collections of poetry, the novel Charisma, the intergenre memoir Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies, and several chapbooks. A Chalmers Arts Fellow, Christakos has been shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She won the ReLit Award for poetry, Arc magazine’s Critic’s Desk Award, and the Bliss Carman Award. She is a former Fireweed collective member and co-founder of MIX: The Magazine of Artist-Run Culture. Christakos has worked with PEN Canada’s Readers & Writers program for international exiled writers and is the creator of Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon. Her current projects include the poetry manuscript evenness unevenness evanescences, an artbook manuscript titled To begin in an arena unrecognized as a beginning, and an ongoing social media series, #justnow #instantmind. She lives in Toronto.