photo by Tony Gonda
Clea Roberts lives on the outskirts of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
Her poetry has been translated and published internationally and has been nominated for the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Award and a National Magazine Award. She has received fellowships from the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Vermont Studio Centre and is a recipient of the Yukon Advanced Artist Award.
Clea has taught creative writing at The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University and Capilano University. She facilitates grief writing workshops through Hospice Yukon. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
Her novel in progress is represented by Jackie Kaiser at Westwood Creative Artists and she is currently working on a book of essays about grief, family and becoming.