Yvonne Blomer

Yvonne Blomer is an award-winning poet, and author of the travel memoir Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur. Her next poetry book is forthcoming with Caitlin Press in 2022. Yvonne’s books of poetry include As if a Raven (Palimpsest Press, 2015) and the anthologies Refugium: Poems for the Pacific and Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds. She is the past Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. and lives on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation.