Lucas Crawford

Friendly selfie of Lucas Crawford against a bright orange industrial exterior wall. He has fair skin and short, styled, gray hair. Lucas is wearing a denim jacket and has piercings on his septum, eyebrow and ears.

Job title
Full Professor   Canada Research Chair of Transgender Creativity and Mental Health at the University of Alberta   poet  
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genderqueer   Jewish   fat  
Places of practice

Montreal, Québec, Canada

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Camrose, Alberta, Canada

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Friendly selfie of Lucas Crawford against a bright orange industrial exterior wall. He has fair skin and short, styled, gray hair. Lucas is wearing a denim jacket and has piercings on his septum, eyebrow and ears.

Friendly selfie of Lucas Crawford against a bright orange industrial exterior wall. He has fair skin and short, styled, gray hair. Lucas is wearing a denim jacket and has piercings on his septum, eyebrow and ears.

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Biography

Lucas Crawford is a multiply-disabled genderqueer poet with one scholarly book and four poetry collections under his extra-long belt, including the award-winning collections Sideshow Concessions (Invisible Publishing, 2015) and Belated Bris of the Brainsick (Nightwood Editions, 2019). Lucas is the Canada Research Chair of Transgender Creativity and Mental Health at the University of Alberta (Augustana). Lucas also runs “Rewriting Ourselves,” a large collaborative pilot project that has designed poetry workshops to be offered in psychiatric wards in 2025. Lucas hopes to soon awaken his early aughts DIY-film making habit by making a musical video poem. Lucas is from rural Nova Scotia.

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References
“Have You Met...Lucas Crawford?” Accessed April 8, 2023. https://www.ualberta.ca/the-quad/2022/05/have-you-met-lucas-crawford.html.