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Carolyn Bates-Hardy (she/her) aka Carrie Biner is a neuroqueer, non-binary trans dyke poet living and creating in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 territory (Regina, SK) and on the Homeland of the Métis. Carrie's dramatic, confessional poetry focus on themes of identity, gender, sexuality, dysphoria, and queer resilience.   

Carrie is working on her debut chapbook collection, a meditation on the paradox of visibiltity for the transgender community, the possibility space of queer, polyamorous love, and coming out in her late thirties as a non-binary "futch" dyke. Her work is scheduled to appear in the first issues of SLIT Magazine and The Lilac Journal. 

She holds a BA in English (High Hons.) from the University of Regina, and a Certificate in Public Relations from the University of Regina, Centre for Continuing Education. Carrie has worked in the field of non-profit communications and public relations for the past 14 years. 

When she is not dictating first drafts into her phone or editing poems in her favorite coffee shops, Carrie enjoys spending time with her friends and chosen family, watching movies and TV shows, listening to her latest vinyl find, and walking around her neighborhood at night contemplating the strange mystery of being alive.  

Photo by Ali Lauren.