Cozy Fest: Ariel Gordon + Fungal

Ariel Gordon reads from Fungal:
Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn)

About our reader

Ariel Gordon (she/her) 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. Her previous work of nonfiction, Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests, was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. Gordon’s essay “Red River Mudlark” was second-place winner of the 2022 Kloppenburg Hybrid Grain Contest in Grain Magazine and other work appeared recently in FreeFall, Columba Poetry, Canthius, and Canadian Notes & Queries. Gordon’s fourth collection of poetry, Siteseeing: Writing nature & climate across the prairies, was written in collaboration with Saskatchewan poet Brenda Schmidt and appeared in fall 2023.

Photo of Ariel credit Mike Deal.

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Thanks to Ariel for reading from her book for All Lit Up’s third-annual Cozy Fest! You can learn more about Fungal, and order from ALU or your fave local bookstore (via the Shop Local button), right here.

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