Chimeras

Tegan Zimmerman (PhD) holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is Chair of the Alexa McDonough Institute at Mount Saint Vincent University (2024- 2026) and the Editor of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice. She specializes in contemporary gender theory and women’s writing that centralizes the maternal and mother-daughter relations. She recently completed a Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Residency at Jampolis Cottage N.S. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as Feminist Theory, MELUS, and Women’s Studies, and she is the author of Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past and Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime, a co-edited collection with Odile Ferly. She has two beloved Pugs named Kosmo and Canto.

She has worked as an editor, teacher and freelance writer and has for many years been involved in the Calgary literary community. Her short stories and poetry have been published in dozens of literary journals and anthologies as well as being broadcast on CBC radio and performed on the Women’s Television Network. Numerous reviews, essays and articles have appeared in a wide range of publications including newspapers such as The Globe and Mail and journals as varied as Westworld and Canadian Literature. Her novel, A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing, was shortlisted for the 2009 Writers Guild of Alberta George Bugnet Fiction Award and she is a three-time recipient of the WGA Short Fiction Award. She has also won awards for play writing.