Ariel Gordon (she/her) 

Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press. In 2019, Wolsak & Wynn published Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests, a collection of essays that combines science writing and the personal essay. It received an honourable mention for the 2020 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing and was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. Her latest book is TreeTalk (At Bay Press, fall 2020), a public poetry project where she hangs poems in trees and asks passersby to add their thoughts, ideas and secrets. TreeTalk was nominated for three Manitoba Book Awards. In 2022, Gordon’s previous residencies included the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s Prairie Outdoor Exhibition and the Al Purdy A-frame in Prince Edward County, Ontario.