Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal
Writer / Facilitator

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Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal (she/her) is a critical race feminist, writer, former lawyer, child of immigrants, and facilitator who grew up on the traditional, present and future territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt, Tsawwassen and Musqueam First Nations. With over 20 years of facilitation and teaching experience, Preeti is committed to arts-based methodologies as a source of personal and collective empowerment, transformation and community-building. She has led arts-based workshops across Turtle Island, and firmly believes that stories change the world by altering our ways of seeing, feeling and being with one another and the planet.

Preeti holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and her work has appeared in various publications, including PRISM International, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Canadian Notes & Queries, The Humber Literary Review, Theatre Research in Canada, Looseleaf, Held Magazine and Arc Poetry, amongst others. Her writing tends to examine themes of touch, grief, power, diasporic Punjabi life, magic, prayer, love and sexuality. Prior to leaving her legal career, Preeti articled at a boutique litigation firm and clerked at the Federal Court of Canada. After that but before her MFA, she completed a Master of Laws at UVic where she used theatre and performance art to investigate how law lives in the body with a focus on race. Through and through, Preeti has always held community-building and social justice at the heart of her work. She has received over two dozen awards for community service and academic excellence (BA, LLB, BCL, LLM, MFA), as well as artistic support from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and BC Arts Council. She has also had the honour of serving as a poetry judge for the League of Poets and being a two-time writer in residence at Voices of Our Nation (VONA), a Deer Lake alumna and a Banff alumna. Preeti holds deep gratitude for organizations and individuals who support the arts, as well as those who tell stories from the margins with love and integrity.