Adrienne Drobnies

Adrienne Drobnies

Adrienne Drobnies is a PhD chemist and poet living in Vancouver, BC, on the territories of the Coast Salish people. She was a researcher at Simon Fraser University, and then project manager at the BC Genome Sciences Centre until 2013. In 2019, she published her first book of poetry, Salt and Ashes (Signature Editions), which won the Fred Kerner Award from the Canadian Authors Association. Her poem “Randonnées,” won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Award and was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Prize. She is grateful to breathe the air, walk along the ocean, and wander through the forests of the lands where she resides, and seeks in whatever ways she can to sustain that abundance for future generations.