I’m a writer currently based in Toronto. My magazine and newspaper journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Hazlitt, enRoute, and Real Life among other publications. I have won two Silver National Magazine Awards, for pieces on the continuing gender-gap in architecture and writers’ residencies that let you eat chocolate cake for breakfast.
My most recent poetry collection, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds, was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize and was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine. My previous poetry book, The Id Kid, was named one of the National Post’s best poetry books of the year. My poetry has appeared in The Boston Review, The Awl, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, Arc, The Walrus, and The Fiddlehead among others. My poems have been anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry 2012 and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry.
I have been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and was named a Writers’ Trust of Canada Best Emerging Artist.
For story assignments, you can reach me at lindabesner at gmail dot com