Chelene Knight was born in Vancouver and is the Managing Editor of Room Magazine as well as the 2018 Programming Director for the Growing Room Festival. A graduate of The Writers’ Studio at SFU, Knight has been published in various Canadian and American literary magazines. Her debut book, Braided Skin, was published in 2015. Dear Current Occupant is her second book. Website: cheleneknight.com. Twitter: @PoetChelene.

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Reviews:

• “Using poetry, essay, flash nonfiction, and photography, Knight weaves what she refers to as a “patchwork” story of her life, told through the lens of different places she’s called “home” throughout her life – In This Magazine
• “Knight, a Vancouver writer, asks “What was it that made a house a home?” (p. 30) as she opens the front door and allows us to see into her many East Vancouver childhood houses” – In BC BookLook

Interviews:

• “The non-linear structure and hybrid form highlight Knight’s keen and poetic observations of her own lived experience” – In PRISM Magazine
• “From witnessing parental drug use to struggling with her identity as a mixed race child with one East Indian and one Black parent, Knight uses memories and experiences to create an intimate, poignant narrative” – In Open Book