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Kanika Lawton is a Vancouver-born, Toronto-based writer and editor. 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 edited and curated 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, Glass Poetry, and Rust + Moth, among others, anthologized in Shared Horizons (ed. Do Nguyen Mai, Rambutan Literary, 2018), The Anatomy of Desire (ed. Shekinah Vera-Cruz, The Poetry Annals, 2018), and RECLAIM: An Anthology of Women's Poetry (ed. Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, 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), Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body (Ghost City Press, 2018), and Monster (Girl) Theory (forthcoming from post ghost press, 2019).
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 a Master's student at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, where her areas of interests include genre, cult cinema, queer theory, and feminist film theory. She has presented research at the 39th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute's Annual Graduate Conference, Columbia University's Inaugural Film and Media Graduate Conference, and Spiral: Film and Philosophy Conference in Toronto, Ontario.
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 a Master's student at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, where her areas of interests include genre, cult cinema, queer theory, and feminist film theory. She has presented research at the 39th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute's Annual Graduate Conference, Columbia University's Inaugural Film and Media Graduate Conference, and Spiral: Film and Philosophy Conference in Toronto, Ontario.
