KIRSTEN PENDREIGH

Author & Poet

POETRY

Some Recent Publications:

ARC POETRY MAGAZINE, Spring 2019

Afterlife Instructions For My Husband

PRAIRIE FIRE, Spring 2019

At Thunderbird Elementary
Planetary Hubris

SAVANTE-GARDE LITERARY MAGAZINE, Spring 2018

Sex Ed

SUBTERRAIN MAGAZINE, #79, 2018

Bye Bye Vancouver Issue

West Coast Cold Snap

When You Grow Up in Vancouver

Prime Real Estate, 2018

Subdivision, Cypress Mountain

ANOTHER DYSFUNCTIONAL CANCER ANTHOLOGY (2018, MANSFIELD PRESS)

Beer On the Roof After Radiation
I Love You, Dr. Theodorakis

CV2 POETRY, Spring 2018

Geography Lessons

JUNIPER POETRY, 2018

Seawall Women

SUSTENANCE ANTHOLOGY (ANVIL PRESS)

Afterglow, Early September

SEA TO SKY REVIEW

Empty Nest By A River
Numb

I'm the 2018 winner of Pandora's Collective Poetry Contest, and a two-time winner of the Whistler Poet's Pause competition. Poems forthcoming in Room Magazine and Sweet Water: Poems for the Watershed (Caitlin Press)

CHILDREN'S WRITING

My debut picture book, LET THE BABY PUSH THE BUTTONS! will publish in 2021, with Ripple Grove Press.  This funny and suspenseful story follows  two headstrong, button-pushing toddlers who meet one day at a crosswalk in the middle of town. One  crosswalk button, two  button-obsessed babies...

See the official Publisher's Weekly announcement below.

 I'm an  active member of 12x12PB and SCBWI. One of my manuscripts was a finalist in CANSCAIP's National Writing for Children competition. 

ABOUT ME

I'm a poet and children's author.  My debut picture book LET THE BABY PUSH THE BUTTONS! will publish in 2021. Formerly a broadcast journalist with NPR and CBC, I now interview health science researchers and write about their discoveries. I volunteer as a kid's literacy mentor with The Writer's Exchange and I moderate author panels with the Vancouver Writer's Festival. I'm blessed to live between ocean and mountains on Canada's West Coast, with good, funny people and a very cute dog.