Polly Phokeev

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Website: https://pollyphokeev.com/


Photographer: Jaclyn Vogl

Polly Phokeev is a Toronto-based playwright and prose writer born in Russia and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. Her plays include How We Are, The Mess, and Seams. She is a recipient of the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Young Canadian Playwright Award and the SafeWords New Canadian Play Award, and she holds a BA in drama from the University of Toronto and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her prose has been featured in House of Zolo, Journal of Speculative Literature and the Toronto Star, longlisted for the CBC and Commonwealth Short Story Prizes, and shortlisted for the Writers’ Union Short Prose Competition.

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