Adrienne Gruber is an award-winning author of three books of poetry, including Q & A, Buoyancy Control, and This is the Nightmare, and the creative nonfiction collection, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood. She won the 2015 Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron poetry contest, SubTerrain’s 2017 Lush Triumphant poetry contest, placed third in Event’s 2020 creative non-fiction contest, and was the winner of SubTerrain’s 2023 creative non-fiction contest. Both her poetry and non-fiction has been longlisted for the CBC Books awards. She teaches and mentors in the University of King’s College MFA program and is a high school teacher at West Vancouver Secondary. Adrienne lives with her partner and their three daughters on Nex̱wlélex̱m (Bowen Island), B.C., the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.
“Etymology of Kind”, Fraser Valley Writers Festival
“Your Basal Ganglia Take You On A Route That Does Not Include Your Child”, Subterrain
“Can a Dead Mother Be Sad?”, The Tyee
“The Smell of Screaming”, Pulp Literature