Adrienne Gruber

ADRIENNE GRUBER is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon. She is the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, including Q & A, Buoyancy Control, and This is the Nightmare, and the creative nonfiction collection, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood. She won the  Antigonish Review’s 2015 Great Blue Heron poetry contest and SubTerrain’s 2017 Lush Triumphant poetry contest, placed third in Event’s 2020 creative nonfiction contest, and was the runner up in SubTerrain’s 2023 creative nonfiction contest. Both her poetry and nonfiction have been longlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2012, Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. Adrienne lives with her partner and their three daughters on Nex̱wlélex̱m (Bowen Island), B.C., the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.