Bren Simmers

Bren Simmers is a Canadian poet and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn 2010), Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions 2015), and If, When (Gaspereau Press 2021). She is also the author of Pivot Point (Gaspereau Press 2019), a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia.

Born in Vancouver, she studied writing at the University of Victoria and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is the winner of 2022 CBC Poetry Prize for Spell World Backwards, a collection of poems inspired by how Alzheimer's affects language. Her book Hastings-Sunrise was a finalist for the 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award. She is also the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award, a finalist for The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and was a finalist for the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. She lives on Prince Edward Island.