Jeremy Audet is a Graduate Fellow in English at the University of Victoria. His research centers on climate literature from displaced communities, with a focus on diasporic and Indigenous poetry from the global north. His final project surveyed the intersection of postcolonial and feminist concerns, climate studies, and poetic genre in Linnea Axelsson’s Sámi-Swedish epic Ædnan.
He is the recipient of a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s (2024), the University of Victoria’s President’s Research Scholarship, the Sam & June Macey Graduate Scholarship in English or History, the Shauna Murray Memorial Prize in English, and the Bishop’s University Golden Mitre Award. He completed his B.A. Hons. in English Literature at Bishop’s University, where his research focused on 20th-century Anglo-Quebec poets based in the Eastern Townships.
In 2020, he conducted an independent research project for the Eastern Township Resource Center on the poetics of place in the works of F.R. Scott, supervised by Dr. David Webster. His final research project, a survey of The Seventh Moon poetry readings that took place over fifteen years in North Hatley, was supervised by Dr. Linda Morra.
In between and during academic ventures, he has worked as a communications professional or editor for Bishop's, McGill, and Concordia Universities, as a Teaching Assistant for the University of Victoria, and as a freelance editor and writer for various other organizations.
He is the Non-Fiction Editor and Communications Manager for yolk, and his creative writing has been awarded the Bridge Prize and shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. When he is not writing or reading, he takes part in activities that require a good insurance plan: Climbing, skiing, surfing, wildland firefighting, and more, always with a pen, camera, and friend nearby.