Gabriela Halas
November 19th, 2025
Currently residing and writing on Ktunaxa Nation land, Gabriela Halas is an author and poet who immigrated to Canada in the early 1980s. She holds an MFA from UBC. Her poetry chapbook, Bloodwater Tint (Backbone Press $10), won first prize from Backbone Press in 2025. The collection centers on themes including the pain of infertility, the body’s mystery and the search for transformation. Bloodwater Tint expresses a chronology of loss, pain and transformation through embodiment, addressing tension and fear at the gynecologist, pregnancy loss and other themes in women’s lives. Family holds a strong presence throughout the collection through fragmented reality of immigration/migration, the meaning of home, language, and naming. Halas has published poetry, fiction and nonfiction widely in literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Room Magazine and Alaska Quarterly Review. She is currently working on a nonfiction essay collection set to be published by the University of Regina Press in 2026. 9798988165064
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