Tina Wayland is a writer, poet and recent graduate of Concordia University’s Master’s in Creative Writing program. An advertising professional by day, Tina writes about motherhood, relationships, family, place, history, roots, and the built and natural environment. A proud Montrealer of Lithuanian origin, Tina’s writing deals with what it means to come from somewhere, and all the associated confusion around self and identity that this brings. Her quiet, observational, yet powerful voice and style is influenced by her growing up anglophone in the predominantly francophone east end of Montreal, and the feeling of what it means to be from a place but not necessarily of it. Her work has been published in both local and national literary reviews (Yolk, Headlight, LBRNTH, and many more), and she is currently finalizing her novel, which she hopes to find a publisher for later this year. Tina is a 2024 recipient of a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and has twice won the Concordia English Department’s McKeen Award for creative writing. When she isn’t writing, she loves to travel and spend time with family and friends.
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Which ’hood are you in?
Plateau Mont Royal
What do you do?
Fiction and creative nonfiction writer and occasional poet
What are you currently working on?
A semi-nonfictional-ish novel based on my Lithuanian grandmother, which I received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to research and write.
Where can we find your work?
In Transit: “Notes from the Montreal Underground” | Unburial | The Tending of Small Gardens | Instagram
