Razielle Aigen, a Montreal-born writer and visual artist, is author of the chapbook, ​“Light Waves The Leaves” (above/ground press 2020). She has published poems and essays in both print and online publications, and continues to show her text-based installations and visual art on an ongoing basis. 

Razielle has been in writing residencies at several international art centres, including the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity; and gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts to conduct creative research on the topics of the epic poem, identity politics, and eco-poetics. She holds a B.A. in History and Contemporary Studies from Dalhousie/King’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is an alumna of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University.

Her poems appear in Entropy, Deluge, Contemporary Verse 2, Train: a poetry journal, The Anti-Languorous Project, Bad Dog Review, Half a Grapefruit, Five:2:One, California Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her poem “Dwelling Pattern” received the People’s Choice award for Contemporary Verse 2’s 2-Day Poem Contest. 

Inspired by the beauty of natural organisms, her aesthetic is an eco-poetics through which she explores themes of structure and formlessness, alongside the complexity of personal vs. interpersonal identity formation in the advent of infinite access to unlimited information.

​In a convergence of multiple mediums, she seeks to create with an all-inclusive, expansive poetics in mind.

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