About

Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) edited the poetry anthology, Written Tenfold (Poetry Friendly Press), and has published one poetry collection, life print, in points (erbacce-press, 2020). Her second poetry book, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding, which is on the 2024 CBC Books list of poetry collections to watch, is forthcoming this fall with Guernica Editions.

 

Renée's poetry has been published in Augur Magazine, Funicular Magazine, Parentheses Journal, Literary Review of Canada, Pinhole Poetry, The Prairie Journal, The Windsor Review, and the /tƐmz/ review, with poems forthcoming in yolk literary magazine and The Prairie Journal. Renée won second prize in the 2024 Dr. William Henry Drummond contest judged by Keith Garebian, and was a semi-finalist in the 2023 Red Wheelbarrow Prize judged by Ellen Bass. She also won second prize in the 2022 Carmen Ziolkowski Poetry Prize, and out of 9,000 international entries, was the runner-up in the UK's 2020 erbacce poetry prize.

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Renée is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) affiliate, and offers writing workshops to emerging writers using the Amherst method. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science degree in Creativity and Change Leadership from SUNY Buffalo State University, and has taught post-secondary education for more than twenty-five years.

 

A member of The Writers’ Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, Canadian Authors Association, the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers, and The Ontario Poetry Society, Renée is also a contributing editor for Arc Poetry Magazine.