John Elizabeth Stintzi

John Elizabeth Stintzi is a non-binary writer and visual artist who was born and raised on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario, and is currently writing and living in the United States.

They are the winner of the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award, the 2019 Long Poem Prize from The Malahat Review, the inaugural Sator New Works Award from Two Dollar Radio, and were named a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize and the 2020 National Magazine Awards (Canada) for poetry. Their work has been published in places like Black Warrior Review, PRISM International, Kenyon Review Online, Best Canadian Poetry, and Ploughshares.

Their debut novel Vanishing Monuments (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020) was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and their debut poetry collection Junebat (House of Anansi, 2020) was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. Their newest novel, My Volcano, is due out with Two Dollar Radio (US) and Arsenal Pulp Press (CA/UK) in March of 2022.