About

Amanda Proctor is a writer, editor, and educator from South Slocan, BC, the unceded territory of the Ktunaxa, Sinixt, Secwepmec, and Sylix Nations. She holds a BA in Writing from the University of Victoria. She is currently working on a poetry collection that that explores the intertwining narratives of her grandparents’ forced labour and familial separation during the Second World War and her own experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after sexualized violence. The collection attempts to find survival, resistance, and spaces of beauty within pain.

Amanda’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room, Arc Poetry Magazine, Prairie Fire, and Best Canadian Poetry 2025, and elsewhere. She has taught Creative Writing at the University of Guelph-Humber and worked as an Editorial Assistant for The Malahat Review. She currently lives in Toronto.