Oana Avasilichioaei

Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet-artist, sound performer, and translator interested in polyphonic poetics, phonotophes (intermediary spaces between words, sounds, and images), and states of listening.

Her seven poetry collections include We, Beasts (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012, winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry), Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015), and Eight Track (finalist for the 2020 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry). Avasilichioaei has translated eleven books of poetry and prose from French and Romanian, including Bertrand Laverdure’s Readopolis (Book*hug, 2017, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation) and Wigrum (runner-up for the 2014 Alcuin Award for Book Design in Canada; winner of the 2012 Grafika Grand Prize for Typography). Other distinctions include the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.

She has been a writer-in-residence at Green College, UBC, and the University of Calgary, an artist-in-residence at Simon Fraser University and OBORO, and was the 2018 Audain Visual Artist in Residence at SFU. Based in Montréal, she frequently performs her work across Canada, the United States, and Europe. See oanalab.com.

Eight Track

Wigrum