Photo: Cassandra Cacheiro

2022 Knowlton Literary Festival

Poet, performer, event curator, and workshop facilitator

Rachel McCrum is originally from Northern Ireland and lived in Edinburgh, Scotland between 2010 and 2016. She was the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence, Broad of cult spoken word cabaret Rally & Broad, and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her first solo show 'Do Not Alight Here Again' was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015. She has performed and taught poetry and performance in Ireland, Scotland, the UK, Greece, South Africa, Haiti, and Canada. She is now delighted to call Montreal home, where she is the editor of Font magazine, and works fulltime as a freelance poet, performer, event curator, and workshop facilitator. Her first collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018) is published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d'encrier in 2020, as Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales. She is currently working on a project about step parenting, and on her second collection, centred around shame.

You can read more about Rachel at:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RachelMcCrumPoet/

Website:  https://rachelmccrumpoetperformer.wordpress.com/