The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Gabriela Halas, MFA. Gabriela’s graduate thesis is a collection of essays entitled Helix Songs: Essays on Ethics and Embeddedness.
Gabriela immigrated to Canada in the early 1980s, grew up in northern Alberta, lived in Alaska for seven years, and currently resides in B.C. She has published poetry in a variety of literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Cider Press Review, Inlandia, About Place Journal, Prairie Fire, december magazine, Rock & Sling, The Hopper, among others; fiction in Room Magazine, Ruminate, The Hopper, subTerrain, Broken Pencil, among others; and nonfiction in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Whitefish Review, Grain, Pilgrimage, and High Country News. She lives and writes on Wetʼsuwetʼen Nation land.
Helix Songs: Essays on Ethics and Embeddedness is a creative nonfiction essay collection which explores complexity, implicatedness, and how to live an ethical life, while grappling with inherited or chosen forms, such as being a settler/immigrant, a woman, and a mother. The collection thematically links a variety of topics, such as infertility, hunting, immigration, family and home, land acknowledgments, and the political social realm of being a researcher in post-secondary and government employment, written from the perspective of a woman born in Eastern Europe and raised in Canada.
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