POETRY + ESSAYS
Nisa Malli is a writer and researcher, born in Winnipeg and currently living in Toronto. Her first book, Allodynia (Palimpsest Press, 2022), was long-listed for the Pat Lowther Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her chapbook, Remitting (Baseline Press, 2019) won the bpNichol Prize. She writes about Long COVID in her newsletter The Impairing Curse. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and has completed residencies at the Banff Centre and Artscape Gibraltar Point.
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POETRY
Forthcoming
Vision Lesson, Room Magazine
Standard Lesson, Kelp Journal
Transformation Lesson, Kelp Journal
Published
Hydration Lesson, Carte Blanche
Safety Lesson, Augur Magazine
Containment Lesson, Occulum Journal
Cooking Lesson, Eavesdrop Magazine
Lexicon Lesson, Eavesdrop Magazine
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, CV2
Allodnyia, CV2
First and Final Woman, I Found Myself In You (Collusion Books)
The Aeolian Sequence, The L4 Society Zine
Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, hits the glass ceiling,
Augur Magazine
Gastropod4Gastropod, Grain Magazine
Pain Log, small poems for the masses
Autologous Transplant, Strange Horizons
The Small Animal, The Fiddlehead
All Towns Are Small, Poetry is Dead
An empty planet and we chose to replicate, antilang
Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, hosts an AMA, antilang
Prayer for Homesickness, Watch Your Head
We spread our military mission, Watch Your Head
Apicoectomy, Contemporary Verse 2
Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, pilots the interstellar ark,
Apparition Lit, “Retribution” Issue
Our ship was the rental apartment you never fully settle,
Entropy Magazine
We said ‘dove-tail’ and now they know, Entropy Magazine
She Took Sleep, Recognition: Queer and Trans Writing on Sexual Harm
Homebound, Blood Bath Literary Zine “Demons” Issue
Anaphylaxis, 13: New Collected Poems from LGBTQI2S Writers
Ritual for Removing ‘Opioid-Seeking’ From Your File, Minola Review
The Naming of Things, Plenitude Magazine
The Illness Factory, The Puritan
The Fifth In My Palm, The Puritan
Evoked Potential, The Malahat Review
All Our Unreasonable Fears, Feels Zine
Reprinted in What Stops You, What Carries On
…Doors That Were Unlocked for Worship, Room Magazine
Towards a Unified Theory of Relative Productivity, Cosmonauts Avenue
Things With No Home, Cosmonauts Avenue
What if you are the only people living here, bird, buried press
The Violin Woman, Grain Magazine
Canicule, Arc Poetry Magazine
Sordino, Carte Blanche
Wet Halos, Maisonneuve Magazine
SELECTED ESSAYS + ARTICLES
Published
How TV Recap Podcasts Helped Me Regain My Memory - This Magazine
Is Canada’s Workforce Ready to Deal With ‘Long Covid’? - First Policy Response
Creative Entrepreneurship in the Era of Physical Distancing - Brookfield Institute
Invisible Labour and Tangible Risk: On Working Through a Pandemic - This Magazine
Imagining a More Equitable Future of Work - Brookfield Institute
To the Non-Linear Future and Beyond - Interview with Charlie Jane Anders
Policymaking in an Infomocracy -Interview with Malka Older
Moving In and Out of the Public Service Shouldn’t Be So Hard - Policy Options
A Real Estate Ghost Story - GUTS Magazine
Putting the Public In Public Service - Policy Options
Misc Arts and Event Reviews - Xtra Magazine
REVIEWS + MEDIA
Open Books Ontario: Excerpt and Review
CBC Spring Poetry Preview
49th Shelf Spring Poetry Preview
49th Shelf: 10 books on speculative pasts & futures
GRANTS + AWARDS
Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant (2024)
Pat Lowther Memorial Award Longlist (2023) Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Longlist (2023)
bpNichol Chapbook Award (2020)
Rhysling Award Nominee (2020)
Finalist for Anesthesiology’s Letheon Prize (2020)
Best of the Net Nominee (2019)
Ontario Arts Council Literary Creation Grant (2019)
Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant (2019)
Toronto Arts Council Grant (2017)
RESIDENCIES + INTENsives
Ou-Telier Artist-in-Residence (2023)
Projected Futures Science Journalism (2023)
Artscape Gibraltar Point (2018, 2023)
Banff Centre Emerging Writers Residency (2017)