poet — creative consultant

Credit: Jean-Pierre Denault

Misha Solomon is a poet and creative consultant in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020) and Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022), nominated for the Expozine Award for English Literary Publications. His poetry has twice been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry, and has appeared in journals including Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Fiddlehead, GEIST, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, and Riddle Fence. His debut full-length collection, My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet, is forthcoming with Brick Books in spring 2026. Misha holds a BA in biological anthropology and linguistics from Columbia University and an MA in English (creative thesis) from Concordia University, where an excerpt of his Master's thesis won the 2023 David McKeen Creative Writing Prize. He is currently a PhD student in Concordia’s Interdisciplinary Humanities doctoral program. Misha also leads poetry workshops at Librairie Pulp Books & Café, consults on scripted television development, and adapts media concepts from French to English.