Tea Gerbeza (she/her) is a queer, disabled poet, writer, and multimedia artist creating in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 territory (Regina, SK) and on the Homeland of the Métis. She primarily works with paper in her visual art, but also creates digital works on her scanner (scanography).
In 2019, Tea’s poetry won an Honourable Mention in the 2019 Short Grain Contest. Her scanograph, “My Father Catches Me Confronting Memory,” won an Honourable Mention in Room magazine’s 2020 Cover Art Contest, and she was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s 2021 Emerging Poet Prize. She was also recognized by SK Arts as one of 75 strong emerging artists that makes the future of Saskatchewan arts exciting.
Tea holds a BA (Hons.) in English (2017) and an MA in Creative Writing and English from the University of Regina (2019). Tea’s thesis work for her MA was SSHRC funded. She also holds an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan (2021).
Tea is an acquisitions reader for Renaissance Press. When not doing any of these things, Tea goes on bike rides with her spouse, does puzzles, or reads poetry to her three dogs, Tonks, Ghost and Fenway.
Photo by Ali Lauren.
All images, art, and writing are copyright Tea Gerbeza unless otherwise stated.