Katerina Canyon

I’ve had a year filled with creativity and challenges. I just completed my second book since Surviving Home, and now I’m facing the next hurdle—finding publishers for my work. This, of course, is easier said than done. I often struggle to find the time for submissions because I’m always writing—if I’m not writing stories, I’m writing content for the Peace Economy Project . For those who aren’t aware, I serve as the Executive Director of the Peace Economy Project, an organizat

I have anxiety, and it’s playing a game with my head right now. So what do I do about it? I start writing. Usually, I don’t know why I’m...

James Evert Jones, Eileen Carole, and I are in the process of starting a new online poetry and arts journal, and we are looking for...

Six Ways to Fight Writer's Block It is one of my favorite times of the year, and I've got nothing! I should not say I have nothing. I...

Yesterday, at work with Casey Family Programs, we had an icebreaker before our meeting, which was to give a shoutout to a woman we each...

Quite a few people have asked me about the dedication in my new book, Surviving Home, which says, "To Mozell, the screaming boy in the...

This week in The Canyon Poets Zoom poetry reading, we wrote and shared pantoum poems. Pantoums are poems that are found Malayan...

Over the past year, millions of people turned to poetry to make sense of the world. Poetry can be found in nearly every social platform....

This week, Spokane Public Radio allowed me to share poems covering the modern Black experience. The first poem I chose to read was my...

About a month ago, I got pretty sick. It started with an episode of vomiting and diarrhea, and then a day later, I had a cough, fever,...