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I'm the queer and neurodivergent author of Danger Flower, winner of the 2022 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry and one of CBC's selections for the Best Canadian Poetry of 2021. I'm also the author of a picture book, Why Are You So Quiet? (Annick Press, 2020) and a forthcoming short story collection, Weird Babies (The Porcupine's Quill, 2026).
I serve on the board of the League of Canadian Poets as Membership Committee Chair, review poetry for the Hamilton Review of Books, and am a member of the organizing committee for Hamilton's Lit Live Reading Series. As the 2023-24 Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer in Residence at McMaster University and Hamilton Public Library, I mentored over 130 emerging writers. I live in Hamilton with my partner and daughter.
- Finalist, 2024 Craft Novelette Print Prize
- Finalist, 2023 CBC Poetry Prize
- Nominated, 2025 Best of the Net
- Nominated, Best American Short Stories 2024
- Winner, RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award 2018
Desforges, Jaclyn. Weird Babies. The Porcupine's Quill, 2026.
Desforges, Jaclyn. Danger Flower. Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books, 2021.
Desforges, Jaclyn. Why Are You So Quiet? Annick Press, 2020.
Desforges, Jaclyn. Hello Nice Man. Anstruther Press, 2019.
Desforges, Jaclyn. "Flower Girl." Permanent Record Anthology, Nightboat Books. Winter 2025.
Desforges, Jaclyn. "I Can Communicate If Communication Is Another Form of Sinking." CBC Books, Fall 2023, www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/i-can-communicate-if-communication-is-another-form-of-sinking-by-jaclyn-desforges-1.7021703.
Desforges, Jaclyn. "Wet." CRAFT Literary, Fall 2023, www.craftliterary.com/2023/11/10/wet-jaclyn-desforges.
Desforges, Jaclyn. "Yes, And." The Temz Review, no. 22, Winter 2022, www.thetemzreview.com/fiction-jaclyn-desforges.html.
Desforges, Jaclyn. "Earth Eater." Contemporary Verse 2, Fall 2023.
Desforges, Jaclyn. "Trauma Panorama." Room Magazine, vol. 43, no. 4, 2020.
EN370 BR: Creative Writing: Poetry
Contact Info:
Office location: RCW304, Research and Academic Centre – West
Personal website: nestandstory.com