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Jami Macarty is the author of two full-length poetry collections:  (University of Nevada Press, 2025), winner of the 2023 Test Poetry Series Prize; and  (Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, 2020), winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry:  (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024), a finalist for the 2025 bpNichol Award; Instinctive Acts (Nomados Literary Publishers, 2018); , winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017); and , a poetic response to her nephew William’s car accident and year-long coma (Finishing Line Press, 2017).

Jami’s writing has been honoured by support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Community of Writers, and Napa Valley Writers Conference, and from the tireless and generous editors of American, Australian, British, and Canadian literary magazines and presses. Her poems appear in The Capilano Review, Colorado Review, Interim, Puerto del Sol, Ocean State Review, Orbis, Vallum, and Volt, among others, and join regional and sociopolitical conversations in the anthologies  (Blue Books, 2024), (Watershed Press, 2023), (Anhinga Press, 2022), (University of Regina, 2021).

Jami supports other writers as an editor of scholarly and creative texts, a reviewer at Canthius, Colorado Review, The Malahat Review, The Miramichi Reader, NewPages, and Rain Taxi, among others, as an independent mentor to creative writers, and as a teacher of creative writing courses at 911³Ô¹Ï. Jami’s teaching is founded in empowering students to apply exquisite attention and the deep desire to understand with their unique capacity to be transformed by what they read and write—to become active and engaged participants in shaping the future of their personal lives, their communities, and the world. 

Jami has travelled all over this glorious world and taught English and yoga in Ecuador, Ethiopia, Nepal, United Arab Emirates and the United States. Part of her heart and DNA resides forever on the ancestral lands of the Pennacook, Wabanaki Confederacy, Pentucket, and Abenaki / Abénaquis (now called coastal New Hampshire). She is grateful to live, walk, write, read and learn on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (now called Vancouver, B.C.).