Edith Hakimian is a Montreal-based French-Canadian poet and author whose work explores migration, identity, and pressing contemporary social concerns. Her writing is marked by emotional precision, linguistic intensity, and a sustained engagement with displacement and belonging. A finalist in the Antidote Poetry Competition in 2020 and 2023, she placed third in 2025. Her work was also shortlisted for the Radio-Canada Short Story Prize in 2021. Edith has given numerous public readings, including at the Montreal Poetry Festival 2025 (Cabaret Rêver couleur d’orange), and her writing has appeared in cultural journals and magazines such as Souffle inédit, Traces, and Femmes de paroles (Issues 5: Résistance du poème and 6: Immortelles), with forthcoming work in Exit.She holds a Master’s degree in Marketing from HEC Montréal and is the author of the poetry collections Le jour où j’ai dit non (Écrits des Forges) and À fleur de maux, as well as the short story collection Dérapages. Edith Hakimian has also participated in several radio interviews across Canada, reflecting on poetry, migration, and writing as acts of survival, resistance, and passage.
