Chimwemwe Undi is a poet, writer and editor based on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Brick, Border Crossings, Canadian Literature, Canthius, Prairie Fire, Room Magazine, CBC Manitoba, BBC World and others, and at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Verses Festival of Words and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

She holds an MA in linguistics from York University, and practices law in her home province of Manitoba.

In 2020, Chim was named one of CBC Manitoba’s Future 40. In 2022, she received the John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards. Her debut full-length collection, Scientific Marvel, will be published by House of Anansi Press in 2024.

She is Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024.

Photo by Ebunoluwa Akinbo.