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Dia Davina is a slam poetry artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia (Coast Salish territory). They identify as queer and genderqueer and use they/them/their pronouns. .

Life
Dia Davina was born in Ontario, in 1987 or 1988 but grew up in the Middle East, mainly Egypt and Lebanon. Their parents are teachers. Their dad is Austrian. They have three siblings. They studied sociology at the University of British Columbia. They have a close relationship with their younger brother who is the subject of Davina's first slam reading titled Blue Jay Ice cream.

Davina has a self-proclaimed love of bowties.

Career
Dia Davina has been writing their entire life but their slam poetry career began in 2012 when they attended their first poetry slam in Vancouver. The experience stayed with them, and soon after they wrote and performed a piece for a friend's birthday. It was very well received and since then Davina has been on slam tours and facilitated workshops on writing and performing poetry. They compete internationally.

Style
Davina's work is grounded in the everyday and frequently involves themes of gender and sexuality [cite]. Their work is often classified as queer poetry. They have performed at pride festivities across Canada. Davina describes that their poetry attempts to "bring honesty, and vulnerability and truth”.

Awards and Recognition
Davina won 4th place at the 2014 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship, first place at the 2013 Annual Queer Poetry Slam at Café Deux Soleils, first place at the 2014 UVic Diversity Writing Contest – Spoken Word category 2014 and third place at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam Playoffs.

“Dia Davina is a poet who is able to stare in to the dark corners of our hearts and find the light. Dia can make us squirm with their words in the best ways possible and then offer release with a tear or a laugh. Plus they’re just a lot of fun to watch on stage!” -RC Weslowski, 2012 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion, 2 time World Cup of Poetry Slam Finalist see: Canadian Festival of Spoken Word