Diana Hope Tegenkamp | so I can bring you with me, a finalist in the Vallum 2023 Poetry Award


Diana Hope Tegenkamp (Diana/Diana‘s; they/them) is a queer, Métis writer and artist living on Treaty 6 Territory, Homeland of the Métis. Girl running (2021, Thistledown Press), was nominated for an Indigenous Voices Award and two Saskatchewan Book Awards, with two poems longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize. Diana’s second, in-process poetry manuscript, In Search of my Métis Father, is supported by a Canada Council for the Arts grant.