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Supplied by Sadiqa de Meijer
Sadiqa de Meijer is a talented writer of poetry, short stories, and essays. Her work has been published in
The Walrus and
Poetry Magazine.
Like many, de Meijer found herself challenged by the pandemic both as a writer and a mother.
“I’m fortunate as a writer that I was working at home anyway, but the timing of things [in life] has changed,” de Meijer told
The Journal.
“Things were fairly close to normal, other than all the same anxieties and missing people that everyone was having.”
Last year, de Meijer was commissioned by Kingston Poet Laureate Jason Heroux to write about the uncertainty of COVID-19. Her poem, “Chronology of the Emergency,” is about adjusting to the changes brought forward by the pandemic.