Liz Howard is a Canadian writer and academic."'Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent' by Liz Howard" . The Winnipeg Review, September 15, 2015. Her debut poetry collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2015 Governor General's Awards,"Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015. and winner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize."2016 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announced". CBC Books, April 11, 2016."The Quotations of Bone by Norman Dubie and Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard Win the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize". Griffin Poetry Prize, June 2, 2016. Her second poetry collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was a shortlisted nominee for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize and Trillium Book Award for Poetry."Ontario authors Brian Francis, Liz Howard & Ann Shin among finalists for the 2022 Trillium Book Awards"
Liz Howard grew up in Chapleau, Northern Ontario. Howard is of Anishinaabe descent through her paternal grandmother."Two debut poetry collections mix technical language with themes of identity, selfhood and race". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2015. She studied cognitive neuroscience at the University of Toronto. Howard received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.
In 2025 she appeared as a guest musician on The Great Lakes Suite, an album by Rheostatics, narrating the spoken word piece "A Wake".Alex Hudson, "Rheostatics Detail New Album Featuring Gord Downie, Alex Lifeson, Tanya Tagaq". Exclaim!, October 8, 2025.
As of March 2026, Howard is an assistant professor of English at Concordia University.
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External links Biography, poetry excerpts from Griffin Poetry Prize website