Courtney Bates-Hardy

Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of House of Mystery (2016). Her poems have appeared in Event, Vallum, Room, CAROUSEL, PRISM, This Magazine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal, among others. House of Mystery was nominated for the 2017 Elgin Award. Her poems have been featured in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and The Best Canadian Poetry 2021, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Her first chapbook, Sea Foam, was published by Jackpine Press in December 2013 and sold out in six months. She is the co-editor of apart: a year of pandemic poetry and prose (Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, 2021). Her second book of poetry, Anatomical Venus, came out in Spring 2024 from Radiant Press.

She is queer and disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets. You can find her on Twitter (@poetcourtney) or email her at courtney.bates@hotmail.com.