Jamella Hagen is the author of two poetry collections, Perfect Weather (Gaspereau Press, 2026) and Kerosene (Nightwood Editions, 2011). Her poetry has won The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry. Originally from Hazelton, BC, she currently lives with her son, Rowan, on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council in Whitehorse, Yukon.

She has served as an Executive Editor of PRISM international, a guest editor for The Northern Review, and a past coordinator of the Whitehorse Poetry Festival. She is a current host of the Northern Stories Reading Series at Yukon University and an Affiliate Poetry Editor with the Alaska Quarterly Review.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Yukon University. Recent work has appeared in Canadian Literature and The Globe and Mail in Canada, and in Calyx and Ploughshares in the US.