Memory Portals: Using Treasured Objects to Write Poetry About Grief

Rayya Liebich
Poet and Writer and Creative Writing Instructor

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Rayya Liebich

Rayya Liebich is a poet and memoirist of Lebanese and Polish descent. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Tell Me Everything (Beret Day Press) and full-length poetry collection Min Hayati (Inanna Publications). 

Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she is currently obsessed with nonlinear forms of CNF and recently completed a hybrid memoir on her simultaneous experience of motherhood/mother-loss. 

A finalist in 7 CNF contests in the past two years including the CBC Nonfiction Prize, she is the 2022 winner of The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir, and The Federation of BC Writers Literary Contest in the Nonfiction Category. 

She finds joy in teaching nonlinear memoir workshops and supporting the bereaved through a curriculum she developed called Writing Through The Grief. 

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