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Rena Joy Poetry
Poet
Lending my voice until
you find your own.
Rena is an adoptee and mental health advocate with lived experience. She uses poetry as an avenue for healing and connection. Her debut ALMOST LOVED follows a former foster child’s search for love, connection and belonging while pushing back on the labels assigned to her at birth. It aims to answer what does it mean to truly be loved in a world where you are seen as second best.
Accolades
2023 Canada Council for the Arts, grant recipient for YA novel in verse.
Publications
Witch Wound
Poetry Club Magazine
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The Benefit of Trust
Runner-up Power of Storytelling Contest
Stony Plain
Book
Almost Loved
November 5, 2024
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