FAITH PARÉ is a poet of Afro-Guyanese ancestry, born on Dish With One Spoon treaty territory. She has performed at Canadian arts centres such as the Art Gallery of York University, the Harbourfront Centre, and the Winter Garden Theatre. She is the current curator of the Atwater Poetry Project, a Tiohtià :ke/Mooniyang/Montreal-based reading series with a national platform, founded in 2004. Faith was the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship, under the guidance of Dr. Gillian Sze. In 2021, she was an honourable mention for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pavlick Prize, awarded for an outstanding portfolio and significant commitment to national poetry communities.