Biography

Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet and creative consultant in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet (Brick Books, 2026). He was also written three chapbooks: FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020), Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022), nominated for the Expozine Award for English Literary Publications, and Misha Solomon’s BIODÔME: A Bestiary after Stephanie Bolster (above/ground press, 2026). His poetry has appeared in journals across Canada (including Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Fiddlehead, GEIST, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, and Riddle Fence) and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, 2026, and 2027 (Biblioasis) and in On Occasion: Poems for the People (Coach House Books, 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.