Bilingual poet, performer, producer, mentor and emerging playwright, Pierrette Requier was raised in the Peace River region of northern Alberta and educated at the University of Alberta and at St Stephen’s College in Edmonton. After teaching in bilingual programs in northern Alberta, a year’s exchange in Queensland, Australia, and teaching French Immersion in Edmonton, she returned to studies, built a private practice and committed to a writing practice, and subsequently achieved publication in poetry.

For the last 15 years, Pierrette has created space for writers at all levels by designing and hosting monthly, 3-hour Wind Eye Writing Seminars incorporating writing and spoken word and various forms of writing. She has featured presenters offering readings of various forms of writing. Not only has Pierrette sat on boards, liaising between the English and French literary communities of Edmonton, she has given numerous workshops, appeared at variety of conferences and festivals and has collaborated in exciting multi-disciplinary events across Alberta, in Winnipeg, and Montréal. She enjoyed her experiences while serving as Grant MacEwan University’s 20th writer-in-residence and as a poet mentor for the Writer’s Guild of Alberta Mentorship Program.

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