Bio

Tracy Wai de Boer (she/they) is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, curator, and PhD candidate.

Her debut book, Nostos, a collection of poetry and experimental photography, was published in May 2025 with Palimpsest Press. 

Tracy’s chapbook, maybe, basically, was published with Anstruther Press in 2020 and was nominated for the bpNichol Award. She has co-authored multiple books including Impact: Women Writing After Concussion, which won the Book Publishers of Alberta Best Non-Fiction Award and was named one of CBC’s Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year.

Tracy was shortlisted for Poet Laureate of the City of Victoria (2025-26) and was a resident at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2017 and 2023).

Tracy’s work has been featured internationally in outlets such as Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Catapult, Plenitude Magazine, Ricepaper Magazine, G U E S T, canthius, Prude Magazine, Petal Projections, and Unearthed Online Literary Journal. 

Tracy resides on the traditional, unceded territory of the Lkwungen People, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations communities.