Aldona Dziedziejko

Aldona Dziedziejko is a first-generation immigrant writer and educator. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in CV2, subTerrain, Poetry is Dead, BAD Dog Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Northern Appeal, Humble Pie, Sky Island Journal, The Capilano Review, Fiction Southeast and others.  She has received the Lina Chartrand Poetry Award (CV2) for an emerging female poet. She holds a BA and MA in Art History and BA in Education. Currently, she is a settler and teacher in a Northern Canadian hamlet in the Tlicho region belonging to the Dene people. Recently she’s been working on a manuscript titled “Clickbait” which explores the crossovers between the unbridled nature in the Canadian North and the strange links between plants and the personalized algorithms of Google news. You can connect and check out more of her work on her Blog: Inland Seas.

“Mammal Mouth,” featured in Eighth Issue: Seeing Synergies