Bren Simmers lives in Vancouver, where she completed her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in journals across Canada, including Grain, The Fiddlehead, Event, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, CV2, and Room. Her work was included in Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts by Arsenal Pulp Press, and she won Arc Magazine’s 2006 Poem of the Year Award. Bren contributed to Submerged a collection of five poems about various treatments women undergo in attempt to “beautify,” and the empty feelings many of these processes leave in their wake.
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin