Jillian Christmas

Jillian Christmas experiments with music-poetry fusion, banging on her drum kit, clowning, and sharing stages and stories.

Jillian is a queer, afro-caribbean writer living on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam people (Vancouver, BC.), where she served for six years as Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words. She has won numerous Grand Poetry-Slam Championship titles and represented both Toronto and Vancouver at 11 national poetry events, notably breaking ground as the first Canadian to perform on the final stage of the Women of the World Poetry Slam. 

Jillian’s first book, “The Gospel of Breaking” was published in early 2020.

Featured in: My Latest Epiphany w/ Jillian Christmas + J. F. Seary and APS Youth