Medgine Mathurin

Haitian-born spoken word artist and advocate Medgine Mathurin is a person for whom the love of language and the alchemy of words is second nature. Her multilingual upbringing (French, Creole, English) not only prompted her to begin experimenting with the potential and magic of language, but naturally compelled her into a deep love of poetry. She has been featured on CBC and Global TV, and in the Skirtsafire Festival and the Edmonton Poetry Festival. Medgine was selected as a participant in the 2022 Mentorship Program with the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and became a mentor with the 2022 Horizon Writers Circle, a writing mentorship program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC), ESL, and underrepresented writers living in Edmonton. Medgine recently received the 2023 Edmonton Artist Trust Fund award from the Edmonton Arts Council and the Edmonton Community Foundation, awarded to exceptional local artists to devote time to their artistic career and encouraging them to stay in our community.

She is the author of Waiting in the Land of the Living/Attendre dans le monde des vivants, a chapbook published by The Polyglot, a multilingual poetry collection, that touches on navigating chronic illness, inter-generational healing, and the wrestle of waiting for answered prayers. You can follow her at medgine.ca