Bren Simmers is a Canadian poet and writer. She is the author of four collections of poetry:
Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn 2010),[1]Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions 2015),[2]If, When (Gaspereau Press 2021), [3] and The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024).[4]
She is also the author of Pivot Point (Gaspereau Press 2019),[5] a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia.
Born in Vancouver, she studied writing at the University of Victoria and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is the winner of 2022 CBC Poetry Prize[6] for Spell World Backwards, a collection of poems inspired by how Alzheimer's affects language. Her book Hastings-Sunrise was a finalist for the 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award.[7]
She is also the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award,[8] a finalist for The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize,[9] and was a finalist for the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. She lives on Prince Edward Island.
