Kyeren Regehr

Master's Candidate

B.F.A. (UVic)

Office: FIA 226

E-mail: kyeren@uvic.ca

Areas of Research & Creative Activity

Poetry, fiction, and spoken word performance.

Biography

Kyeren Regehr (b. Sydney, Australia) spent many years in the world of professional dance and theatre both performing and teaching before beginning her B.F.A. at UVic. During her time as an undergraduate she was the poetry editor for This Side of West and was the Writing Department’s inaugural recipient of the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award. She graduated in 2011 with a double major in poetry and fiction (and with the Victoria Medal in Fine Arts). She began her M.F.A with a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant.

Kyeren’s poetry was first published in Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry and since then her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Grain Magazine, Room Magazine, and is upcoming in Prism International, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, and Australia’s foremost feminist literary journal, Hecate.  Her work has been shortlisted for several awards including The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, Arc Magazine’s Poem of the Year Award, and Exile Quarterly’s Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Prize. She recently won first place in the poetry section of UVic’s Diversity Writing Awards, second place in Prism International’s 2012 Poetry Prize, and Room Magazine has nominated one of her poems for Best New Poets 2012.  

Kyeren has been interning on the poetry board of The Malahat Review since June 2010. She has read her poetry on CFU 101.9, has been a featured reader at Planet Earth Poetry’s reading series, and was one of four poets in the public debate for National Poetry Month: “Poet vs. Poet.”