Biographical notes
Maggie Helwig (she/they) is a white settler in Tkaronto/Toronto, and has published more than a dozen books, including Girls Fall Down (2008) and Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community (2025). Helwig is a long-time social justice activist and an Anglican priest, and has been at the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields in Kensington Market since 2013.
Books Published
- Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community, Coach House Books, May 2025: nonfiction
- Girls Fall Down, Coach House Books, April 2008: novel
- Between Mountains, Knopf Canada (Canada), Chatto and Windus (UK), 2004: novel
- One Building In the Earth: New and Selected Poems, ECW Press, 2002: poetry
- Real Bodies, Oberon Press, 2002: essays
- Where She Was Standing, ECW Press, 2001: novel
- Gravity Lets You Down, Oberon Press, 1997: short fiction
- The City on Wednesday, Lowlife Publishing, 1996: poetry chapbook
- Eating Glass, Quarry Press, 1994: poetry
- Apocalypse Jazz, Oberon Press, 1993: essays
- Graffiti for J.J. Harper, Lowlife Publishing, 1992: poetry chapbook
- Talking Prophet Blues, Quarry Press, 1991: poetry
- Because the Gunman, Lowlife Publishing, 1990: poetry chapbook
- Eden, Oberon Press, 1989: poetry
- Tongues of Men and Angels, Oberon Press, 1987: poetry
- Walking Through Fire, Turnstone Press, 1983: poetry
