K.P Dennis is a Black, queer, multi-disciplinary artist, based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They were the 2016 Youth Poet Laureate of Victoria, the 2017 recipient of the VACCS Community recognition Award, and in 2020 they received the Witness Legacy Award for Social Purpose and Responsibility Through Art with their work with Rage Sweater Theatre Productions. In February 2020 they released their chapbook, Growing Pains, and are currently working on their new play The Parable of the Vulture, funded by Canada Council for the Arts. Learn more about K.P Dennis and their work at www.kpproductions.org.

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