Bertrand Bickersteth is the 2024-2025 Writer in Residence for Athabasca University. His work explores the question of what it means to be Black and from the Prairies. His collection of poetry, The Response of Weeds, was the recipient of multiple awards. His writing has appeared in many places including Geist, Prairie Fire, The Walrus, The Sprawl, and CBC’s Black on the Prairies. His current project features the history of Black cowboys in western Canada. He lives in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary) and teaches at Olds College.
