2026 LCP Book Awards: Jurors
Meet the 2026 LCP Book Award Jurors
Born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, Britta Badour, better known as Britta B. is an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet living in Toronto. Her debut poetry collection and audiobook, Wires that Sputter, was celebrated as a Trillium Book Award Finalist for Poetry, as well as shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She’s currently serving as the Poet-in-Residence for Poems in Passage (responsible for the poems you see on your TTC commute), and was recently a juror for the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize.
Yvonne Blomer was the poet laureate for the City of Victoria from 2015-2018. She has published a cycling memoir and six books of poetry, most recently Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press). She lives on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking people in Victoria, BC. She has edited three water-focused, eco-poetry anthologies, Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice is the latest.
Cory Lavender is a poet of African Nova Scotian and European descent living in Mi’kma’ki. His full-length collection of poems Come One Thing Another (Gaspereau Press, 2024) won the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award. He lives in Gunning Cove, down on Nova Scotia's south shore.
E. McGregor is a Euro-Settler/Metis writer currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous magazines including Room, The Dalhousie Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead, and others. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia in 2022. Her first collection of poetry, What Fills Your House Like Smoke (Thistledown Press, 2024) was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, shortlisted for an Indigenous Voices Award, and was a finalist for a High Plains International Book Award.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is the author and contributing editor of several books of poetry, creative nonfiction and scholarly work. Halifax’s first Métis Poet Laureate, she lives and works in Mi’kma’ki. Her most recent books include The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Known and Been and Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry (updated edition).
Concetta Principe has written five books of poetry (Interference, Walking, Hiroshima, This Real, Disorder), two creative non-fiction projects (Stars Need Counting and Discipline N.V.: A Lyric Dictionary) and one book of fiction (Stained Glass). Interference, (Guernica Editions) won the Bressani award for poetry in 2000. Disorder, (Gordon Hill Press) was shortlisted for the Bressani Award for Poetry in 2024. This Real (Pedlar Press 2017) was shortlisted for the Raymond Souster award. She lives with a disability and is Assistant Professor at Trent University, Durham.
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Jane Shi is a poet, writer, editor, and organizer living on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. She is the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022) and the winner of The Capilano Review’s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest. Her debut poetry collection echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) was shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated.
Ami Xherro works across poetry, performance, sound, and video to examine how the self is transcribed and shared. She is the author of Drank, Recruited (Guernica Editions, 2023), which won the 2024 Nelson Ball Prize, and the chapbooks No need to know / Infinite Belowness co-written with Benjamin de Boer (Solipcyst, 2025), and The Unfinished Flame (Swimmers Group, 2017). She is a co-founder of the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective, which seeks to renegotiate relationships within and across languages and media via collaborative seminars, workshops, and performances.