LONG BIO
Jade Wallace (they/them) is a poet, novelist, critic, and co-founder of the collaborative writing entity MA|DE.
Wallace is the author of the debut poetry collection, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (Guernica Editions, 2023), which was longlisted for the Nelson Ball Prize, and the debut novel, ANOMIA, which was adapted from their Governor General’s Gold Medal-winning thesis (Palimpsest Press, 2024). MA|DE’s debut poetry collection, ZZOO, is available now from Palimpsest Press. Forthcoming works include Wallace’s sophomore collection The Work Is Done When We Are Dead (Guernica Editions, 2026) and MA|DE’s sophomore collection Detourism (Palimpsest Press, 2028).
Wallace’s work has also been published in literary journals internationally, including This Magazine, Canadian Literature, and Hermine, as well as in several chapbooks, including the collaborative A Trip to the ZZOO (as MA|DE, Collusion Books, 2020), shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, and most recently Expression Follows Grim Harmony (as MA|DE, Jackpine Press, 2023).
Wallace’s writing has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Windsor, and the Windsor Endowment for the Arts; has won the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, Coastal Shelf‘s ‘Funny & Poignant’ Poetry Contest, and the Anita and Alistair MacLeod Prize; and been a finalist or runner-up for the PEN Canada New Voices Award, the Wergle Flomp Humour Poetry Contest, the Ken Belford Poetry Contest, and PRISM International’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest.
Wallace currently volunteers as a board member for Literary Arts Windsor, holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, and maintains memberships with The Writers’ Union of Canada and The League of Canadian Poets.
In real life, Wallace is a genderless queer, a chronically ill homebody, and an irredeemable grump who dreams of the equitable redistribution of wealth, the end of oppression, and world peace—but regrettably is not the inspiration for the lascivious novel that shares their name.
Wallace is often available for poetry and fiction editing, manuscript consultations, workshops, and readings.
SHORT BIO
Jade Wallace (they/them) is a poet, novelist, critic, and co-founder of the collaborative writing entity MA|DE. They are the author of the poetry collection, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (Guernica Editions, 2023) and a genderless novel, ANOMIA (Palimpsest Press, 2024). As MA|DE, Wallace co-authored the collaborative poetry collection ZZOO, which was just released by Palimpsest Press in 2025.
CONTACT
Email: j-a-wallace(at)hotmail(dot)com
Bluesky: @nycterosea and @madeprojects
Instragram: @nycterosea and @ma_de_projects
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Jade Wallace 