Nicole
Mae
Nicole Mae is an interdisciplinary artist. Their poetry, films, and artworks reflect themes of nostalgia, longing, Prairie queerness, Hungarian diaspora, ill body, shame, and romantic love. Mae teaches poetry, hosts creative writing workshops, and runs a multimedia art subscription called Love Letters. Mae lives in Treaty Four, otherwise known as Southern Saskatchewan.
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“Venturing through the sparse, lyrical terrain of Prairie life, Prairie Bog speaks to the tension between surviving and thriving in a world of contradictions and complexities. Nicole Mae’s language forms pockets of livability, gently queering the geography of the land and its intimate histories. With a voice that ripples across the page, Mae crafts a vision of queer and trans lifeworlds that proliferate even in the most unforgiving spaces — in sites full of sugar and snow.”—2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award poetry jury (Dallas Hunt, Matt Rader, and Sanna Wani)Works Recognized by WT