Angela Waldie

Angela Waldie is a poet and creative nonfiction writer. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Calgary, where her research focused on species extinction in Canadian and American literature. She teaches courses on environmental literature for the Department of General Education at Mount RoyalUniversity, encouraging her students to explore their connections to non-human species and the land on which we live.

Born in Creston, BC, Angela has spent much of her life crossing and re-crossing the Continental Divide, and her work reflects her connection to both mountain and prairie. Her current writing projects include a poetry manuscript on the RockyMountain National Parks and a collection of essays about a walk she took acrosssouthern Alberta with Calgary naturalist Gus Yaki. Her residency at the Stegner House in May 2019 helped to deepen her appreciation for the grasslands landscape and the rural communities of southern Saskatchewan.