Kyeren Regehr is a poet and writer living in Victoria since 2004. She is the author of Cult Life (finalist for the national ReLit Awards and The Victoria Butler Book Prize); Disassembling A Dancer (winner of the inaugural Raven Chapbooks contest), and two earlier chapbooks. Her poetry has been published in literary periodicals and anthologies in Canada and internationally, and translated into Chinese. Poetry has been thrice longlisted for the CBC Poetry Awards, and has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts. She is the co-editor of AFTER: Poems in Dialogue (with Zoe Dickinson), forthcoming with Caitlin Press.

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Kyeren is the Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry, one of Canada's longest running reading series, approaching its 30th season this fall, and she served on the editorial board of Canada's iconic literary periodical, The Malahat Review. She holds an MFA in Writing (earning The Victoria Medal for her BFA in Writing), and taught in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. She has mentored poets through the Writer’s Union of Canada and the League of Canadian Poets, and works as a literary editor, writing instructor and mentor. 

Kyeren’s background is in professional dance and theatre, and she once found herself in Victoria’s Poetry Slam finals by accident. She produces and hosts The Poet Laureate Podcast, a national platform featuring the poetry and community work of poets laureate near and far. In 2024 she completed Indigenous Canada through the University of Alberta. She lives and writes with gratitude on the unceded homelands of the W̱SÁNEĆ people.