Renee Sarojini Saklikar

Renée Sarojini Saklikar is a poet and lawyer who lives in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples.

The former poet laureate for the City of Surrey, and a creative writing instructor and editor, she is the author of four books, including the ground-breaking poetry book about the bombing of Air India Flight 182, children of air india, which won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize. She is the co-author, with Dr. Mark Winston, of the poetry and essay collection, Listening to the Bees, winner of the 2019 Gold Medal Independent Publishers Book Award, Environment/Ecology.

Her newest book, Bramah and the Beggar Boy, an epic fantasy in verse, is part one of a series. The next book, Bramah's Quest, will be published in 2023 (Nightwood Editions).

Renée is passionate about helping students find their writer's voice and honing their editing skills. For more information, visit thotjbap.com and the Canada Project on WordPress.