Cecily Nicholson — Contemporary Writers Series

Presented by the Contemporary Writers Series through the Creative Writing and Literature program at the Mills College campus of Northeastern University. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Cecily Nicholson is the author of four books, and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She has held the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University, and Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and collaborates with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity. Her most recent book, HARROWINGS (Talonbooks, 2022), considers Black rurality, agriculture, and art history.