Nyla Matuk

Nyla Matuk

Nyla Matuk (b. 1967) is the author of two books of poetry: Sumptuary Laws (2012), and Stranger (2016). She has been nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Walrus Poetry Prize, has received a Yaddo fellowship and grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Whiting Foundation. In 2018 she was the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence at McGill. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. such as The New Yorker, Poetry, PN Review, The Manchester Review, The Walrus, The Best Canadian Poetry in English, and the New Poetries VI anthology (2015).