Allegra Stevenson-Kaplan is a first-year MA student in the Department of English Literature at UBC. She holds a BA in English from the University of Victoria, where she wrote her Honours graduating thesis on single mothers and child custody in Victorian fiction. Her SSHRC-funded master’s research looks at the intersections of genre, form, and the autobiographical impulse in postmodern and contemporary Canadian poetry. More specifically, she is interested in the development of the radical “life-long” poetry genre as a resistance to conventional forms of autobiography, and as a site for re-negotiations of the self, language, memory, and history.

Her scholarly writing has appeared in The Albatross English Undergraduate Journal, and she has contributed to articles in KULA Journal, IDEAH Journal, and Currents in Teaching and Learning. She has also published poetry in the University of Saskatchewan’s Fieldstone Review, The Warren Undergraduate Review, Unstamatic Magazine, Beaver Magazine, and on nationalpoetrymonth.ca.