Jami Macarty
Jami Macarty is the author of The Long Now Conditions Permit, winner of the 2023 Test Poetry Series Prize and forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press, 2025, The Minuses, a Mountain West Poetry Series title published by The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, 2020. She has also authored four chapbooks of poetry, including The Whole Catastrophe (No. 38, Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024) Instinctive Acts (Nomados Literary Publishers, 2018), Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award (No. 22, Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017), and Landscape of The Wait, 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 A Journal of the Plague Years: Words & Music from the Lost Days (Blue Books, 2024), Cascadia Zen: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now (Watershed Press, 2023), Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022), Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (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, and NewPages, among others, as an independent mentor to creative writers, and as a teacher of creative writing courses at SFU. 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.).