Amanda Merritt
Amanda Merritt is the Research and Events Assistant at POLIS. Previously, she worked with CFGS as the Administrative and Events Assistant. A poet and creative writing instructor by trade, Amanda teaches writing classes at UVIC and is presently working on her second full-length collection, supported by the generosity of the Canada Council for the Arts. Her debut collection The Divining Pool was shortlisted for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial award, and her poetry can be found in The Literary Review of Canada, The Threepenny Review, Grain, Prairie Fire, and Hart House Review, among others. In another life, Amanda was founding editor of The Scores.
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