About
Maleea Acker is the author of four books of creative works: Hesitating Once to Feel Glory (Nightwood Editions, 2022, poetry), Air-Proof Green and The Reflecting Pool (Pedlar Press, 2009 & 2013, poetry), and Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC’s South Coast (New Star Books, 2012, non-fiction). She is also co-editor of a trilogy of academic monographs on anarchist political ecology: Undoing Human Supremacy, Energies Beyond the State, and Inhabiting the Earth. Her academic journal publications focus on geopoetics and place.
Her writing has also been published in periodicals such as Orion, GeoHumanities, Other Poetry, Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prism International, Descant, Event, Ascent and the anthologies Refugium, Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2008, Rocksalt, Poetry from Planet Earth, Force Field, Make It True, and I Found it at the Movies. She writes a monthly environmental column for Focus Magazine.
Maleea holds a PhD in Geography as well as an MA in Literature, and a BFA and MFA in Writing. She has been a funded arts fellow in Canada, the USA, Latin America and Europe. Maleea serves on the editorial board of the Malahat Review (non-fiction) and as a Director for Suddenly Dance Victoria.
She has taught English and Creative Writing sessionally at Camosun College. She currently lectures at the University of Victoria and serves as faculty at Thompson Rivers University. She lives in the unceded territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Lək̓ʷəŋən Territories.
Contact:
maleeaacker…..[at]….gmail…[dot]…….com
Past member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Society for Environmental Journalists; current member of the Association of American Geographers.
For publicity or readings, please contact me, Nightwood Editions, or Rolf Maurer at New Star Books.
Maleea Acker 
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