Lara Bozabalian

Author & Poet

Lara Bozabalian’s poetry and prose have been published in newspapers, journals and two literary anthologies. She has featured at reading series and universities around Ontario, including the Art Bar, Harbourfront’s Canadian Voices Slam, the Luminato ‘New Waves’ Festival, Queen’s University Slam, the Eden Mills Writers Festival and the Words Aloud Festival.

As a member of the 2009 Toronto Poetry Slam Team, Lara represented Toronto at the American National Poetry Slam and Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She also competed at the 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam and at the 2009 Women of the World Poetry Slam. As Head of English at a public high school, Lara founded and runs a spoken word festival for high school students across York Region, and is a founding member of Toronto Poetry Project, a collective dedicated to fostering social change and creative writing opportunities.