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EM DIAL
BIO
WORK
CONTACT
EM DIAL
BIO
WORK
CONTACT
BIO
WORK
CONTACT

ORDER In the Key of Decay

PUBLISHED WORK

Cherry Scale - AAWW: Meniscus Literary Journal (forthcoming)

Touchy Feely - The Ex-Puritan

quadroon (adj., n.) & Necropastoral in the Canyon of the Womb - Permanent Record Anthology - Nightboat Books

Falling asleep during the brain scan & In lieu of pronouns I’d like to say - Room Magazine v. 47.3 (Bodies)

Emetophobia - Geist v. 126

Chronic Illnesses are like dreams,… - Muzzle Magazine

Lincoln Middle School, Gym Class & Nostalgia, Ultra — Love Crimes - The Malahat Review

Panic Attack at Crews & Tangos - PRISM International

Title About Sickness - Arc Poetry Magazine

Against Beauty - League of Canadian Poets

Alternatives to Where are you from?… - Block Party Magazine

Necropastoral in the Key of Decay - GASHER

Serenade with Youtube and Springtime - Passengers Journal

Necropastoral for the Anthropocene - This Magazine

There was a time I was - Breakwater Review

Lil Miquela Contemplates my Freckles - The Brooklyn Review

Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X, and I… - Literary Review of Canada

Queering Place Earth Art Installation - SKETCH Working Arts

aubade with jackfruit - Foglifter Journal

triracial triptych - Sonora Review

& the white girl tells me… - Southern Indiana Review

troika & Pantoum on Mooring - Crab Fat Magazine

The DNA Test Hires Me as Consultant - Crab Creek Review

Person with 1/8th Japanese Ancestry… - Tinderbox Poetry Journal

narwhal talk & Sequel to the 1997 version of... - Changing Womxn Collective

Waves Don’t Die - Stanford 2019-2020 Hoefer Prize Winners

 PRESS

“2025 VERSeFest Interviews: Em Dial,” Periodicities

“Power & Nostalgia: Délani Valin interviews Em Dial,” The Malahat Review

“12 or 20 (second series) questions with Em Dial,” Rob McClennan’s Blog

“Q&A with New Voices Winner Em Dial,” PEN Canada

“Toronto writer Em Dial wins PEN Canada’s 2020 New Voices Award,” CBC

“Mary C. Mohr Awards,” SIR

“September/October 2020 - Recent Winners,” Poets & Writers

“Stanford poetry team blooms…,” The Stanford Daily

Em lives and creates in Tkaronto (Toronto), ON

They are a settler on Treaty 13 land, governed by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt covenant. They benefit daily from the historic, present, and future stewardship by the Haudenoshaunee, Anishinaabe, Huron, Wendat, Petun, and many other First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people, and recognize, affirm, and commit to the ongoing process of decolonizing and Indigenizing arts practices and spaces across Turtle Island.