Andrea Scott
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Andrea Scott, MFA. Andrea’s graduate thesis is a collection of poetry entitled The World in My Mouth.
Andrea is a writer living in Victoria, BC, the traditional territory of the Lekwungen peoples. Poems written during her MFA have appeared in many journals and two public projects: Poetry in Transit and the City of Victoria’s Public Poetry Remix Project. She won the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry contest and the 2024 Raven Chapbooks Contest. Her first poetry collection, In the Warm Shallows of What Remains, was published in spring 2024. Andrea only had eyes for poetry entering the MFA, but along the way discovered a love of comics, screenwriting and writing for children. She’s currently finishing a YA novel in verse called Birdnesting.
The World in My Mouth is a poetry collection that explores the complexities of mothering — and grieving a mother — on a changing planet. The poems in The World in My Mouth celebrate, grieve, and meditate on the human experience: the joys and limitations of our bodies, our memories, our families, our lovers, our connections to Planet Earth. Poems in free verse and traditional forms are interwoven in this collection, with threads of darkness and dystopia intersecting those of humour and hope.
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