Bradley Peters is a Canadian poet from British Columbia whose debut poetry collection Sonnets from a Cell was published in 2023. [1]
Peters grew up in a Mennonite family in Abbotsford, British Columbia. [2] He studied creative writing at the University of the Fraser Valley. [3]
Sonnets from a Cell won the 2024 Raymond Souster Award from the League of Canadian Poets, [4] and was a Governor General's Award nominee for English-language poetry at the 2024 Governor General's Awards. [5]
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