Yvonne Blomer
2025, Writer In Residence
Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with Plume Winnipeg that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press.
She is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are the essay collection Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) and the epistolary spec-fic novel Blood Letters, co-authored with graphic novelist GMB Chomichuk (Great Plains Press, 2025).
Ariel Gordon
2025, Writer In Residence
“I so appreciated the liveliness of the space, with all the artists living and working around us. The Caetani Centre is so vibrant and seems to be well-known locally; every time we mentioned to someone that we were staying there, they said something like ‘what a great place!’
The Caetani Centre allowed me to stare deeply into the currents of my life and my work, to reconcile what had happened and to plan for what was coming next. I appreciated the opportunity to wade in without all the usual distractions: family, work, home.”
– Ariel Gordon
Yvonne Blomer has published six books of poetry, most recently Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press, 2024). Her work has won awards and appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Japan. She has an MA with Distinction from the University of East Anglia and lives on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking people. She was the City of Victoria’s poet laureate from 2015-2018.
Yvonne has been teaching in-person and online classes in poetry and creative nonfiction for over 20 years. During the past few years, she has focused on editing, teaching, mentoring and writing.