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Selina Boan

Selina Boan is a white settler–nehiyaw poet living on the traditional, unceded territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ílwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Boan has received Room’s 2018 Emerging Writer Award and the 2017 National Magazine Award for Poetry, as well as being shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2016 and 2020. She is currently a poetry editor for Rahila’s Ghost Press and a member of the Growing Room Collective. Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions) is her debut collection.

Undoing Hours

Undoing Hours

By Selina Boan

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