Lucia Misch

Lucia Misch grew up at an astronomical observatory near San Jose, California. Since moving to Canada, she has made a place for herself in the spoken word community, teaching and touring across the country. Lucia has written and performed poems for organizations including Human Rights Watch and the United Food Workers Union Women’s Network, and presented original work at The 2015 Vancouver Fringe Festival and The 2015 Vancouver Writer’s Festival.

As an arts educator, Lucia is a veteran workshop leader with Vancouver Poetry House’s WordPlay program, and has worked with youth in and outside of the classroom as part of Speak Up! in Montreal, Brendan McLeod’s Travelling Slam, and BC’s youth spoken word festival, Hullabaloo. In 2015 she served as an ArtStarts project poet in residence in Tsawwassen, BC, and later that year was a guest teacher at a Media Poetry Studio, a day camp that empowers young women to find their voices through film making and literary art.

Her keen, illuminating writing is driven by the realization that just about everything in this world is funny because it’s true, and sad because it’s true. Sometimes witty, sometimes haunting, always thoughtful, Lucia’s words lean between poetry and lyric, monologue and song. Author and poet Robert Priest says of her work: “the future of poetry is safe and dangerous thanks to Lucia Misch.”