Credit: Kevin Calixte Kaie Kellough is renowned for the richness of his writing and his ability to weave narratives together across time and place. After winning the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2020 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, Kellough is now the 2020-21 Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s. In an interview with The Journal, Kellough described his artistic influences, performance style, and experimentation within the literary community. Kellough creates dialogues and combines his experiences in Calgary, Montreal, and Guyana in his poetry. Raised in Calgary, he moved to Montreal as a young adult to become a poet. “In Montreal, I was exposed to writing in French and the French language in a much richer and profound way than the West,” Kellough said. “I chose Montreal because it’s where my parents met, and I thought it was the more unexpected and unusual choice compared to moving to Toronto or Vancouver.”