SYDNEY HEGELE

Sydney Hegele is the author of Bird Suit (Invisible Publishing, 2024), shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature, and The Pump (Invisible Publishing, 2021), winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award.

 

Their essays have appeared in the Toronto Star, Catapult, Electric Literature, and many others, and have been featured by Lithub, The Poetry Foundation, and Psychology Today.

 

Their essay collection Bad Kids is forthcoming with Invisible in 2028. They live with their husband and French Bulldog on Treaty 13 land (Toronto, Canada).