Dora Prieto

Born and raised between rural Nova Scotia and southern Mexico, Dora Prieto is a poet and translator based between Vancouver and Mexico City, on the move to the Bay Area for the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. Her debut collection Girl Tejido is forthcoming with House of Anansi in April 2027. She won the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers with her ten-page poem cycle "Loose Threads" and was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize. She's currently co-translating an award-winning poetry collection titled JAWS by Mexican poet Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza. She is a member and co-founder of the El Mashup Collective, a community arts project focused on skills sharing and collaborative practice in poetry, analog film, sound art, and hybrid storytelling. Her poems can be found in Acentos Review, Catapult (RIP), Capilano Review, the Ex-Puritan, GUTS, and Maisonneuve.