Sadiqa de Meijer | Biography

Sadiqa de Meijer's latest books are the poetry collection Qaf's People and the essay collection In The Field. Her 2020 book alfabet/alphabet, a record of her childhood transition from speaking Dutch to English, won the Governor General’s Award for English Non-Fiction. The book will appear in French translation in 2028.

Sadiqa's work has been published in Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, and Brick, and anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry, the Best Canadian Essays, and the Dutch Turing Prize series. She is the current Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston.



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