Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist and educator.[1] Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award,[2] the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes,[3] and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist.[4] Gibson’s art and writing confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and representations of Black women in Western culture.[5]
Born in Quebec[6], Gibson went to high school in Mackenzie, British Columbia. Her mother is an African-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia.[7]
Gibson is a writer-artist-educator based on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is a lecturer in written and visual communication at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT).[8] Gibson was the recipient of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.[9]