Rebekah Rempel lives near Dawson Creek, in northeastern BC, on Treaty 8 territory. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, such as Arc Poetry Magazine, Canthius, Contemporary Verse 2, The Fiddlehead, Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, and Room Magazine. Her poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including Best Canadian Poetry 2023 (Biblioasis), Voicing Suicide (Ekstasis Editions), Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds (Caitlin Press), Refugium: Poems for the Pacific (Caitlin Press), Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia (Mother Tongue Publishing), and Unfurled: Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women (Caitlin Press). One of her poems received Canthius’s 2019 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry. In 2018, she contributed a poem to Bimblebox 153 Birds, a project that engages artists with the bird species that inhabit the Bimblebox Nature Refuge in Queensland, Australia. Along with other local writers, she also contributed poetry to the Written in Stone Project, which displays a renga engraved on stones in a Dawson Creek park.
Rebekah has read at many local literary events, including the arts and music festival Sweetwater 905 and the first Wild Words North Writing Festival in September 2018, where she also taught a poetry workshop.
She is currently working on her first poetry collection.
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