Poets Rise Up

Poets Rise Up - Sunday, Sept. 8 3:00PM - 5:00PM

• Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano is the author of a memoir What Doesn’t Kill Us (2014) and editor of Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art (2015). As a child of a Vietnam/American War vet and a seamstress from Long An province in Vietnam, both exposed to Agent Orange, she has lived with complex painful illnesses her entire life, as genetic mutations were passed down to her. Read more ...

• Lozan Yamolky was born in Baghdad, the 5th of 11 children. In 1994, she was forced to leave her homelands: Kurdistan/ Present day Northern Iraq. She has authored three collections of poetry: I’m No Hero (2016), Counting Waves (2017) and Dreamers Needed (2019.) Read more ...

• Rajdeep Dhaliwal is a second generation Canadian settler and a passionate advocate for Climate Justice, Majoring in Environment and Sustainability at UBC. Raj has spent her summer organizing with Our Time, a youth led movement campaigning for a Green New Deal in Canada, and is in the midst of creating a documentary on the perceptions surrounding energy. Read more ...