Hari Alluri

Diploma in Intercultural Education and Training (UVic), BA Sociology (UVic), MFA Creative Writing (SDSU)
Alluri Photo By Erik Haensel

Limited Term: Spring 2026

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is a migrant poet of Filipinx & South-Asian descent on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, living in New Westminster: Kwantlen, Katzie, and Kwikwitlem lands of Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples. Co-editor of We Were Not Alone (Community Building Art Works) and co-founding editor at Locked Horn Press, his grants, fellowships, and awards include The Capilano Review writer-in-residence, the Federico Moramarco Poetry International Teaching Prize, the Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Fellowship and others. Siya is author of The Flayed City (Kaya) and Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers), and chapbooks The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel) and Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page). His work appears in anthologies such as Watch Your Head (Coach House) and in journals and online venues such as Apogee, Four Way Review, Marías at Sampaguitas, poetry in canada, Poetry Magazine, PRISM International, ti-TCR, and—via Split This Rock—Best of the Net 2022.

Photo credit: Erik Haensel

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Areas of Interest

I love reading work that moves, troubles, shifts, and transforms: poetry, essays, short stories, comics and graphic novels, fantasy, sci-fi, and literary fiction. There's a soft spot in my heart for animated storytelling and the heist genre. And sometimes I feel the space in a failed translation is closest to how I feel. I am interested in displacement, gender, loss, migration, music, pop-culture, unbelonging, and mythologies both ancient and diasporic, especially where alive in the everyday. I believe that writing is inherently collaborative, that every voice is multiple, and that curiosity helps us move under our doubts, helping creativity to flourish. I give thanks for work that, even when it attends to the most difficult subjects, reveals a space for joy in its process.

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