Terese Mason Pierre

Terese Mason Pierre (she/her) is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Walrus, ROOM, Brick, Quill & Quire, Uncanny, and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her work has been nominated for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Best of the Net, the Aurora Award, and the Ignyte Award. She is one of ten winners of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, and was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star. Terese is an editor at Augur Magazine, a Canadian speculative literature journal, and co-Director of AugurCon, Augur‘s biennial speculative literature conference. She has co-hosted poetry reading series, spoken at conferences, organized literary events, judged writing contests, facilitated creative writing workshops, and mentored emerging writers. Myth is her debut poetry collection, from House of Anansi Press, and she is the editor of As The Earth Dreams, as collection of Black Canadian speculative short fiction. Terese lives and works in Toronto, Canada, and has an MFA from University of Guelph.