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 Howard at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016 |
Liz Howard is a Canadian writer and academic. [1] Her debut poetry collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2015 Governor General's Awards, [2] and winner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize. [3] [4] [5] Her second poetry collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was a shortlisted nominee for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize and Trillium Book Award for Poetry. [6]
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Liz Howard grew up in Chapleau, Northern Ontario. [7] Howard is of Anishinaabe descent through her paternal grandmother. [8] [9] She studied cognitive neuroscience at the University of Toronto. [1] Howard received an MFA in Creative Writing [3] from the University of Guelph.
In 2025 she appeared as a guest musician on The Great Lakes Suite , an album by Rheostatics, narrating the spoken word piece "A Wake". [10]
As of March 2026, Howard is an assistant professor of English at Concordia University. [11]
