Klara du Plessis is a South African Canadian poet residing in Montreal. Her debut collection Ekke?winner of the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award?was released from Palimpsest Press; and her Anstruther chapbook, Wax Lyrical,was shortlisted for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Klara is a PhD English Literature student at Concordia University, and currently expanding her curatorial practice to include experimental Deep Curation poetry reading events.
