Neil Surkan

Neil Surkan used to be on summer staff at the Centre and once shared the role of summer director of children and youth programs with a dear friend. He is the author of the poetry collections Unbecoming (2021) and On High (2018), both from McGill-Queen’s University Press, and the chapbooks Their Queer Tenderness (Knife-Fork-Book, 2020) and Super, Natural (Anstruther Press, 2017). In 2021, he earned a PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Neil currently lives and teaches in Nanaimo, on the traditional and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, with Luca, Edi, and Lloyd.

website: www. neilsurkan.com