K.L. McKay

K.L. McKay attended the 2007 Writing Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts.5 New Poems at www.ottawater.com!!!! Released January 26, 2007.www.spirepoetry.com K.L. McKay arrives to Edmonton via Ottawa, originally from the North Shore of Lake Superior. Her first collection of poems, Barefoot Through the Pickybushes, was released in October 2005 through the University of Ottawa Friday Circle imprint. Her poetry has appeared in Bywords, CWS/cf, Pooka Press, Bloom Oon, and several online publications. K.L. is a small press junkie. The Ottawa and Toronto Small Press Fairs are highlights of the year for Spire and K.L., and will always be worth the trek back East. Once a week for three years, K.L. co-hosted the Café Nostalgica Poetry and Music Open Stage on the University of Ottawa campus, along with folk musician Trevor Tchir. Audio recordings of her poetry have appeared on two collections from that venue. For two years she taught a creative writing (poetry) and small press publishing enrichment program for secondary school students through Encounters With Canada in Ottawa. Now settled in Edmonton , K.L. is currently a member of the Olive Reading Series Collective.