Erina Harris Wins Alberta Arts Awards Emerging Artist Award
Congratulations to Erina Harris for winning the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Emerging Artist Award!
This award was established to support and encourage Alberta’s most promising artists at an early stage of their careers.
The adjudicators of the award had this to say about Erina’s poetry:
This is poetry that stretches the mind: Greek myths queered: Medusa turning men not to stone, but sculptures — “I, too, can make a god” declares one of the gods’ most storied victims. History, or fiction, or both are re-examined with a feminist lens in figures from Little Miss Muffet to Marie Antoinette. Erina Harris’s writing is the work of both poet and scholar where the future’s words are found in the dialogue between present and past.
