About

Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) edited the poetry anthology, Written Tenfold (Poetry Friendly Press), and has published two poetry collections. life print, in points (erbacce-press, 2020) and In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica Editions, 2024), which was on the 2024 CBC Books list of poetry collections to watch, and its November preview,. In 2025, the book was shortlisted for an International Rubery Award. 

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Renée's poetry has been published in Room Magazine, FreeFall Magazine, yolk literary magazine, Augur Magazine, Funicular Magazine, Parentheses Journal, Literary Review of Canada, Pinhole Poetry, The Prairie Journal, The Windsor Review, and the /tƐmz/ review. 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.