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Kanika Lawton is a writer, poet, and editor from Vancouver, British Columbia, now living in Toronto, Ontario. A 2013 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold and Silver Key recipient, 2018 Porkbelly Press Micro Chapbook Series finalist, four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and 2018 Pink Door Fellow, Kanika is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of L'Éphémère Review and the Social Media Manager of Rambutan Literary. She is also the editor of the anthologies Beyond the Shallows and Overture to Memory (both through L'Éphémère Review) and will guest edit Glass Poetry's Poets Resist series in June 2019. Her work have appeared in Ricepaper Magazine, Vagabond City Literary Journal, Hypertrophic Literary, Longleaf Review, Crab Fat Magazine, and Rust + Moth, among others, anthologized in Shared Horizons (Rambutan Literary, 2018), The Anatomy of Desire (The Poetry Annals, 2018), and RECLAIM: An Anthology of Women's Poetry (forthcoming Fall 2019), and have been profiled in The Ellis Review, Horn & Ivory Zine, and wildness. She is the author of the micro-chapbooks Wildfire Heart (The Poetry Annals, 2018) and Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body (Ghost City Press, 2018).
Kanika holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a Minor in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia, where she served as an editor with the UBC Undergraduate Film Student Association. She is an MA student and graduate assistant at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, where she teaches on horror films and sex in cinema. Her areas of interests include genre, cult cinema, apparatus theory, queer theory, and feminist film theory, with a particular research focus on personas and the double in psychological horror films.
Kanika currently volunteers with LGBTOUT, Canada's oldest LGBTQ+ student organization (based out of the University of Toronto), and edits and runs social media for The Neutral, the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Journal.
Kanika holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a Minor in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia, where she served as an editor with the UBC Undergraduate Film Student Association. She is an MA student and graduate assistant at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, where she teaches on horror films and sex in cinema. Her areas of interests include genre, cult cinema, apparatus theory, queer theory, and feminist film theory, with a particular research focus on personas and the double in psychological horror films.
Kanika currently volunteers with LGBTOUT, Canada's oldest LGBTQ+ student organization (based out of the University of Toronto), and edits and runs social media for The Neutral, the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Journal.
