Sanita Fejzić

Sanita Fejzić is an award-winning Bosnian-Canadian writer. At the age of seven, after experiencing the Siege of Sarajevo, she fled the Balkan War and was a refugee across Europe for five years with her mother and brother. Her father, who was stuck in the longest siege of modern history, joined them years later. In 1997, her family moved to Ottawa, Canada, to be welcomed by the ice storm and soldiers from the Royal Regiment shoveling snow an uncanny and stressful first winter in the Great White North. Fejzić is currently completing her PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University specializing in the relationship between words and the way they open up possibilities for imagining new worlds. She asks the question: if it is true that we are in and of nature, deeply entangled with nonhuman beings, including animals, plants and elements such as water and land, then how has our language changed to reflect this reality? Her essay about more-than-human responsibility, titled “Entangled Bodies in a Stubbornly Material-Textual World,” has been published in the February 2019 issue of the feminist magazine, Canthius . She has also published two anthologies of essays, prose, poetry and art as co-editor, including Refuge(e) (with Lise Rochefort) in 2016 and Dis(s)ent in 2018 (with guest editor George Elliott Clarke).