Assistant Professor
North Borden Building, Room 223
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Indigenous Literatures, Theatre, and Film
- Oral Tradition and Indigenous Knowledges
- Feminism and Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
Biography
Tyler Pennock is a two-spirit (reconnected) adoptee from a Cree and Metis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They graduated from Guelph University’s Creative Writing MFA program in 2013, and from the University of Toronto's Indigenous Studies Specialist program in 2009. They spent over 12 years involved in Indigenous youth social work and Indigenous community development in the Toronto area prior to teaching. Their first Book, BONES (Brick Books) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award in 2021. Their second book, BLOOD was released in September 2022.
Publications
- Blood (Brick Books Publishing : 2022)
- “I’m not an Expert in Intimacy and Neither are You.” (League of Canadian Poets. : 2022)
- “Measure” (Guelph Institute for Environmental Research : 2021)
- Bones (Brick Book Publishing : 2020)
- “B.” (Glad Day Lit : 2020)
- “Extrait de Bones." (Maison de la Poésie de Nantes. : 2020)
- Senator Murray Sinclair: Community, education, change: Indigenous ways of knowing, Kihkinoohamaakewin. (Rabble.ca : 2018)
- “Enda’aan: Why Land Matters" (Shameless Media : 2016)
- Words (Kegedonce Press)