curriculum vitae
Education
1997-2002 B.A. (English), University of Calgary
Honours Thesis: “Spite my Face,” a creative and critical writing project on body and disability.
Supervisor: Dr. Nicole Markotic
Awards/Grants
Academic
2000 University of Calgary Undergraduate Merit Award ($500)
Literary
2011 [sic] shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Recent Employment
2011 – present Managing Editor. EVENT Magazine. New Westminster, BC.
2010 – 2011 Language, Literature & Performing Arts Faculty Assistant. Douglas College. New Westminster,
BC.
2010 Substitute instructor. On call. Megaphone Magazine Creative Writing Program. Vancouver, BC.
2009 -10 Freelance Writer/Editor/Research Assistant. Vancouver, BC.
2008-9 Researcher & Communications Assistant, English Television Diversity Initiatives. CBC-Radio
Canada. Vancouver, BC.
2007-8 Communications Assistant, Regional Communications. CBC-Radio Canada. Vancouver, BC.
2007 Special Projects Assistant, Diversity Initiatives & Partnerships. CBC Radio Canada. Vancouver, BC.
2006-7 Administrative Assistant, Regional Director’s Office. CBC-Radio Canada. Vancouver, BC.
Volunteer/Community Work & Service
Fall 2011 Editor. Enpipe Line Book project. (To be published by Creekstone Press, 2012.)
2010 – present Web Editor. Van City Kitty section. VancouverIsAwesome.com. Vancouver, BC.
2009 -10 Office Manager & Program Coordinator. Kootenay School of Writing (KSW). Vancouver, BC.
2009 Board Member, W2 Community Media Arts Society. Vancouver, BC.
2007-9 Creator & Curator, disjunct! performance series. Vancouver, BC.
Literary/Arts Blogging
2010 – present Lemon Hound http://lemonhound.blogspot.com
2008-9 Vancouver International Writers Festival Blog http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/blog
2007-9 Schema Magazine http://www.schemamag.ca
Links to all of my online arts writings can be found here: http://www.nikkireimer.com/online-writing-archives.php
Selected Performance
Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference. Reading and Panel with Clint Burnham and Amy De'ath. Hosted by Cris Costa. Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre. Vancouver, BC. 20 October 2011.
On Edge Reading Series. Curator Rita Wong. Emily Carr University. Vancouver, BC. 29 September 2011.
Word on the Street. Subterrain Magazine reading. Library Square. Vancouver, BC. 25 September, 2011.
SFU Institute for the Humanities Website Launch. Waldorf Hotel. Vancouver, BC. 24 September, 2011.
Play Chthonics Reading Series. Curator Sonnet L’Abbe. UBC. Vancouver, BC. 21 September, 2011.
Kranky Reading Series. Curator Garry Thomas Morse. Kranky Cafe. Vancouver, BC. 7 July, 2011.
League of Canadian Poets Poetry Festival and Conference. Courtyard by Marriot. Toronto, ON. 11 June, 2011.
Heavy Industries Chapbook Launch. Spartacus Books. Vancouver, BC. 12 May, 2011.
Poetry is Dead Issue 3 launch. Havana Theatre. Vancouver, BC. 21 April, 2011.
Reading at University of Northern British Columbia. Prince George, BC. 4 April, 2011.
DENVER/VANCOUVER. W2 Community Media Arts. Vancouver. BC. Hosted by Jen Currin. 27 March, 2011.
The Capilano Review 3.13: Manifestos Now! Launch. Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, BC. 22 February, 2011.
Literary Death Match Vancouver. W2 Storyeum. Vancouver, BC. 8 October 2010.
Dektet 2010 Toronto Launch. Revival Bar, Toronto, ON. 22 September 2010.
/////diagonal west coast zine fair. 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC. 7 August 2010.
Vancouver launch of [sic]. W2 Storyeum, Vancouver, BC. 22 May 2010.
One [sic] Calgary party! Comrad Sound, Calgary, AB. 20 May 2010.
Dektet 2010 Calgary Launch. John Dutton Theatre, Central Library, Calgary, AB. 29 April 2010.
Dektet 2010 Edmonton Launch. Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre #7, Edmonton, AB. 27 April 2010.
W2 Real Vancouver Writers & Culture Series. W2 Perel Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 17 February 2010.
Launch of fist things first chapbook. Curators Stephanie Davis and Meghan Doraty. Pages Books on Kensington, Calgary, AB.
3 September 2009.
Launch of fist things first chapbook. Five Feisty Poets: Nomados / Wrinkle Press Chapbook launch. Ten Sixty-Seven,
Vancouver, BC. 26 August 2010.
5th Annual Calgary Blow-Out! Performing Arts Festival. Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, AB. 3 July 2009.
Art/Photography
“Some Birds.” Book Design. Calgary: Uppercase Magazine 7 (2010).
“Baba at Hatch.” Photograph. This Is East Van. (c) 2011 This Is East Van. p. 154.
“manifest/later.” Text/Digital Art. The Capilano Review’s Manifestos Now! Group Exhibition at SFU’s Teck Gallery, SFU
Vancouver Campus. 22 February-27 May, 2011.
“East Van Cats” tryptich. Photography. C-print. Just Act Natural. Group Exhibition. Kingston, ON. June 2010.
“52 Weeks of East Van Cats.” Photography. Vancouverisawesome.com. 24 August 2009-16 August 2010.
publication list
Nikki Reimer Publications List
Books
[sic]. Calgary: Frontenac House, 2010. Poetry. 94 pp.
Reviews
“Sachiko Murakami’s Rebuild.” Lemon Hound. Web. <http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2011/07/sachiko-murakamis-rebuild.html> Site Editor: Sina Queyras. Posted 18 July 2011.
“Shoot and Weep: Horror at the Heart of Divinity in Rachel Zolf’s Neighbour Procedure.” Calgary: filling Station 49. 2011.
“Just Twelve Bars: On Adam Seelig’s Every Day in the Morning (Slow).” Lemon Hound. Web. <http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/11/just-twelve-bars-on-adam-seeligs-every.html> Site Editor: Sina Queyras. Posted 29 November 2010.
“Inventory, Inventoried.” A review of Margeurite Pigeon’s Inventory. Lemon Hound. Web. <http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/11/inventory-inventoried.html> Site Editor: Sina Queyras. Posted 15 November 2010.
“Indexical Elegies, Indexed.” A review of Jon Paul Fiorentino’s Indexical Elegies. Lemon Hound. Web. <http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/11/indexical-elegies-indexed.html> Site Editor: Sina Queyras. Posted 1 November 2010.
“Existentiality & the Breath Line in Artie Gold’s “Some of the Cat Poems.” Talonbooks MetaTalon. Web.
<http://talonbooks.com/meta-talon/existentiality-the-breath-line-in-artie-gold-s-some-of-the-cat-poems-> Site Editor: Garry Thomas Morse. Posted 12 October, 2010.
“In the Headwaters of the Nass: Reading Ken Belford’s Decompositions.” Talonbooks MetaTalon. Web.
<http://talonbooks.com/meta-talon/in-the-headwaters-of-thenass-readingken-belford-s-decompositions> Site Editor: Garry Thomas Morse. Posted 3 August 2010. Reprinted: Poetry is Dead Issue 01 Volume 02: Temporary Structures.
“Of Seeds and Semen.” Review of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. Eds. John Barton and Billeh Nickerson. Schema Magazine. Web. <http://www.schemamag.ca/indepth/2009/05/review-of-seeds-and-semen.html> Site Publisher: Alden Habacon. Posted 7 May 2009.
Interviews
"Collage, montage, politic, polemic, gut punching, slippage": In conversation with [sic] author Nikki Reimer. Conducted by Angela Hibb. Open Book Toronto. Web. <http://www.openbooktoronto.com/ahibbs/blog/collage_montage_politic_polemic_gut_punching_slippage_conversation_with_sic_author_nikki> Posted 22 April 2011.
“By the Collective, For the Collective, On the Collective: Current and Recent Members.” Co Interview with Steve Collis, Pauline Butling, Michael Barnholden, Donato Mancini and Nikki Reimer. Strathroy, ON: Open Letter14:3, Summer 2010. Peer reviewed. 10 pp.
“12 or 20 questions: with Nikki Reimer.” Conducted by rob mclennan. rob mclennan’s blog. Web. <http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/07/12-or-20-questions-with-nikki-reimer.html> Posted 23 July 2010.
“Interview with Nikki Reimer.” Conducted by Paul Kennett. Writer’s Block. CJSW 90.9 FM. Radio. Calgary, AB. Aired 25 May and 1 June 2010.
“Interview with Nikki Reimer.” Conducted by Paul Kennett and Steph Weidmann. Writer’s Block. CJSW 90.9 FM. Radio. Calgary, AB. Aired 3 September 2009.
Chapbooks
that stays news. Vancouver: Nomados Press, 2011. Poetry. 31 pp.
haute action material. Vancouver: Heavy Industries, 2010. Poetry. 10 pp.
fist things first. Vancouver: Wrinkle Press, 2009. Poetry. 14 pp.
spite my face. Calgary: napalm press, 2003. Poetry. 40 pp.
Chapbook Anthologies
From this dust of crows. Calgary: abandon. edits all over press chapbook anthology 1. Ed. Natalie Simpson (2009). 1 p.
From [sic]. Calgary: Blow Out 2 Chapbook: Lung Capacity. Stacked Press/filling Station chapbook. Ed. Natalie Zina Walschots (2006). 3 pp.
“knitting needles.” YARD 1 chapbook. Ed. Jason Christie (2002). 1 p.
Mixed Media (Graphic/Textual) Poetry
“benevolent despot.” Calgary: Dandelion Magazine 37.1 The Mapping Issue. (2011). 6 pp.
“manifest/later.” Vancouver: The Capilano Review 3.13 Manifestos Now! (Winter 2011). 6 pp.
Poetry
“black lines for flight.” Vancouver: SubTerrain. (Forthcoming).
From “eyes awe ewe (6 weeks of missed connections).” UK: Capitalism Nature Socialism 22:3 (September 2011). 1 p.
“ceci n’est-pas enpipeline.” The Enpipe Line project. Web. <http://enpipeline.org/?p=1024> Site Editor: Christine Leclerc. Posted 19 July 2011. Forthcoming in The Capilano Review 3.16.
“a replicant responds.” Vancouver: Poetry is Dead 2.2 Vancouver Influence. (Summer/Autumn 2011). 2 pp.
From “one or two things to consider.” Vancouver: PRISM International 49:2. (Winter 2011). 3 pp.
"the declarative, the dialogic: the decade goes pop." Montreal: Branch Magazine 4 Pop. Web.
<http://www.branchmagazine.com/archives/issue4/index.html> Editor Gillian Sze. Posted Winter 2011. 7 pp.
“television vs. the real.” Vancouver: Poetry is Dead 1.2 (2010). 3 pp.
From us vs. them, “without warning the girl cousins.” Vancouver: W 2010 (2010). 10 pp.
“gentrified,” (from [sic]). Vancouver: West Coast Line 62 (2009). 5 pp.
“as long as you’re not doing anything wrong.” Montreal: Matrix 84 (2009). 2 pp.
From us vs. them. Vancouver: FRONT January/February 2009 (2009). 2 pp.
From [sic]. Vancouver: _Room to Move Autumn 2007 (2007). 1 p.
From [sic]. Vancouver: Prism International 45.4 (2007). 1 p.
From [sic]. Toronto: BafterC 3.1 (2007). 5 pp.
“romance”, “next top model”, “mount pleasant” “apparition”, “apparition 2.” Calgary: filling Station 36 (2006). 3 pp.
“Career Planning 101.” Calgary: Nod 2 Winter 2005/2006 (2006). 2 pp.
“ideology.” Calgary: dANDelion 2.30 (2004). 3 pp.
“rest on my laurels why don’t you.” Calgary: sudden magazine 1340 (2003). 1 p.
“infinite east.” Toronto: Queen Street Quarterly 6.4 (2002). 1 p.
“jarring.” Calgary: filling Station 20 (2001). 2 pp.
“neck”, “lips”, “mast cell”, “ashes.” Calgary: filling Station 19 (2001). 1 p.
Fiction
Wrote character of “Flannery Simone” for online improvised collaborative story Hush Hush City. Posted from 1-31 January 2011. Not cached.
Commissioned Work
My poem “survival guide for dislocation city” performed by Sarisa Figueroa. Larimer St. Decidedly Jazz Danceworks. Dance. Vertigo Mystery Theatre, Calgary, AB. 16 – 20 February 2005.
My poem “gentle cycle” performed by Jaime Marr. Larimer St. Decidedly Jazz Danceworks. Dance. Vertigo Mystery Theatre, Calgary, AB. 16 – 20 February 2005.
Journals (Editor)
EVENT 40:2. (Managing Editor Ian Cockfield/Nikki Reimer.) New Westminster. 2011.
Guest editor (with Jonathon Wilcke.) W12: The All Music Issue. Vancouver: W Magazine (2008). <http://216.120.255.32/KSWaudio/readings/W12AllMusic.pdf>
(orange) poetry | prose magazine. Calgary, AB. Co-founding (with ryan fitzpatrick) and managing editor 8 issues (2000-2).
