Hari Alluri

Of Pangasinan, Ilokano, and Telugu descent, Hari Alluri (he/siya) is a poet, editor, and teaching artist who lives on unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Kwantlen, Katzie, and Kwikwetlem peoples, aka New Westminster, British Columbia.

Alluri is author of The Flayed City (Kaya Press, 2017) and Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers Press, 2013), and the chapbooks Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page Press, 2022) and The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press, 2016). The writer-director of Pasalubong: Gifts from the Journey (NFB/ONF, 2010) and cofounding editor at Locked Horn Press, he coedited We Were Not Alone (Community Building Art Works, 2021) with Seema Reza. Along with the Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color, and others, siya has received awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies from the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Deer Lake Artist Residency, the National Film Board of Canada, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, and VONA/Voices.

Alluri’s collaborations include work with Aphotic Theatre’s Art Connects, Burnaby Art Gallery’s Dream Marrow, the Capilano Review’s Emerging Writers’ Mentorship Program, Carnegie Community Centre, The Cultch and Soft Cedar, Death Rides a Unicorn, Massy Arts Society, and Vancouver Poetry House. His work has been published in anthologies, including Magdaragat (Cormorant Books, 2023), as well as in Adi Magazine, Apogee, Counterclock, Four Way Review, Kweli, Marías at Sampaguitas, Michigan Quarterly Review, poetry in canada, and Tinderbox.