Kenzie Allen is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist. Her debut poetry collection, Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the CLMP Firecracker Awards, the Indigenous Voices Awards, and the Maya Angelou Book Award, and was long listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Kenzie is the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry, grants from Ontario Arts Council, and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Summer Words, and In-Na-Po. Her poems can be found in Narrative Magazine, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Best New Poets, and other venues, and her work extends into concrete poetry, digital media, and site-specific arts. A first-generation descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she teaches creative writing and Indigenous literatures at York University in Toronto.
Kenzie will teach her craft session “Place Poetics: Landscape, Memory, and Journey,” offer mentoring sessions to participants on an independent writing residency, and participate in the reading and conversation series.