Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit, and culture collide. It has won the Malahat Review’s Open Season Creative Nonfiction Prize, and been nominated for both the Queen Mary Wasafiri Life Writing Prize and the Pushcart prize. Gloria holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College and lives in Toronto. Her book of essays Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas is published by Dundurn Press.


