Meet Sonya Littlejohn

Listen to Sonya’s recent interview on Wax Poetic for CFRO 100.5FM Vancouver Co-Op Radio (with RC Weslowski and Kevin Spenst), A show Sonya also frequently co-hosts with RC.

Sonya was born and raised in Chimney Valley, Williams Lake, traditional, ancestral and unceded Secwepemculucw. Her roots stretch over Scotland and England, Africa, North America, and Bermuda. She was born in Secwepemculucw (Williams Lake). She lives and works in Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil Waututh) unceded Territories. 

Sonya’s exploration of language and speech-based performance arts summons talents and give others tools for finding their own voices to share. Sonya Littlejohn graduated the University of British Columbia with a degree in Canadian Studies in 2002 and SFU's Community Capacity Building Certificate in 2022. Her poetry is in Other Tongues (Inanna Press), Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food (Anvil Press), Briarpatch Magazine, and lit journal Oratorealis.

Her first book of 21 poems on grief, compassion, community and love, The Sun Book (BookLeaf) was published in 2024. Sonya facilitates writing workshops and performs poetry, educates students in the fundamentals of poetic literacy, and is a course instructor at SFU for Leadership Essentials. She is a mother. She is neuro-divergent. She is a defender of seeds, poetry, and community.

She made this website herself.