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2026 Festival: Oct 18–25

Jordan Abel

British Columbia

JORDAN ABEL is a queer Nisga'a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps, Un/inhabited, Injun, NISHGA, and Empty Spaces. Abel has won the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award and is a Professor at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures, Research-Creation, and Creative Writing.

2026 Reading List: