A PROUD DISABLED ARTIST
MY WORKS
Writer & Performing Artist
Carla Harris (they/she) is a disabled, mad queer enby writer, performer and interdisciplinary artist from Treaty 4 territory, living in Regina, Saskatchewan. They performed at the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan’s Annual Poetry SoirĂ©e of 2022, the Verses Festival in Vancouver (2016), the Saskatoon Poetic Arts Festival (2018), and Regina Nuit Blanche (2017). They released their first chapbook, Obtain No Proof with Dis/ Ability Series of Frog Hollow Press in 2020, and has had publications appear in Write Magazine (2023) The Humber Literary Review (2023), The Leslie Strutt Chapbook with League of Canadian Poets (2022) and The ANTILANG (2021). Harris teaches creative improvisation and is working on their first play and their first book of poetry in unconfined #CripTime.
Collaborator
Carla teaches young writers to explore improvisation and creative experimentation, to experience the excitement of creating art, opposed to the pressure of performing in competitive settings. Carla has acted as a writer-in-residence for school groups and summer programs.