A storyteller of Afro-Guyanese ancestry, Faith Paré writes poetry, performance, and criticism.

Her work explores the nature of pain, cultural displacement in a polarized world, and futurisms in the face of destruction, all in dialogue with multitudinous traditions of Black cultural production.

Faith has shared her poetry at national arts centres such as the Art Gallery of York University, the Harbourfront Centre, and the Winter Garden Theatre. She has received performance training from Soulpepper Theatre, the Paprika Festival, the AMY Project, the Toronto Poetry Slam, and Our Bodies, Our Stories, a mentorship program for queer and trans artists of colour facilitated by Kama La Mackerel. From 2021 to 2023 she was curator of the Atwater Poetry Project, one of Montreal’s longest-running English-language reading series, showcasing a national platform of writers.

Faith is the winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in Poetry for “Selections from a fine African head”. She is a two-time nominee of the Irving Layton Award in Poetry from Concordia University, which she was awarded in 2020. Faith was the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship for Underrepresented Writers, under the guidance of Dr. Gillian Sze, and was also named an honourable mention for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pavlick Prize, granted to a poet with an outstanding portfolio and significant commitment to Canadian poetry communities.

Born in T’karonto/Toronto, Dish with One Spoon treaty territory, she was raised in the proudly working class and immigrant community of Scarborough. She now writes, learns, and wanders in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka people.