Alisha Piercy

Alisha Piercy is a fiction writer and visual artist in Montréal. Her large-format, live drawing performances, publishing and conservation projects have been shown in Canada, Iceland, Spain and Malaysia. Piercy works with the material auras of history crossed with interspecies interdependencies to make speculative fictions in technicolor, Her stories are for un-thinking patterns of ruin and re-dreaming new freedoms. In her worlds, sharks feed humans lost at sea and hurricanes show the way.

Piercy has a BA in Literature from McGill University, an MA in Fine Art from Concordia University, and an MA in Art Conservation from Queen’s University. Her second book, You have hair like flags (Your Lips to Mine Press) won the bp Nichol Chapbook Award in 2010. She is currently writing her second novel, Hush, set in The Great Dismal Swamp of the Deep South (US).