Maria Giesbrecht is a Canadian writer whose work explores her Mexican and Mennonite roots. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry, Narrative Magazine, Electric Literature, The Literary Review of Canada, Only Poems, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, Grain, and elsewhere.

She is a winner of the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, The Jack McCarthy Book Prize, the Lesley Strutt Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2025 Narrative Poetry Prize. Maria won Silver in Poetry at the National Magazine Awards in 2026.

Born in Durango, Mexico, Maria now lives in Elmira, Ontario with her husband and their tuxedo cat, Mozzie.

Maria's debut poetry collection, A LITTLE FERAL (Write Bloody Publishing, 2026), is now available to order!

Maria hosts the popular and internationally recognized writing community, Gather, for other poets searching for creative community.

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