Bio
Kaie Kellough is a novelist, poet, and sound performer. His work emerges at a crossroads of social engagement and formal experiment. From western Canada, he lives in Montréal and has roots in Guyana, South America.
His books include Interposition (poetry, McClelland & Stewart, 2026), Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction, Véhicule 2020), Magnetic Equator (poetry, McClelland & Stewart 2019), and Accordéon (novel, ARP 2016) .
Kaie’s writing has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
Since 2011 he has created mixed media compositions with saxophonist and synthesist Jason Sharp. They are core collaborators in FYEAR, a 9-piece ensemble whose debut was released by Constellation Records in 2024.
Kaie is a doctoral student at Queen’s University. He is the recipient of a CGSM-SSHRC fellowship and the Robert Sutherland fellowship. He researches sound in Caribbean diasporic literature and performance.
Kaie continues to craft new passages.
︎ ︎kaieouy@gmail.com
His books include Interposition (poetry, McClelland & Stewart, 2026), Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction, Véhicule 2020), Magnetic Equator (poetry, McClelland & Stewart 2019), and Accordéon (novel, ARP 2016) .
Kaie’s writing has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
Since 2011 he has created mixed media compositions with saxophonist and synthesist Jason Sharp. They are core collaborators in FYEAR, a 9-piece ensemble whose debut was released by Constellation Records in 2024.
Kaie is a doctoral student at Queen’s University. He is the recipient of a CGSM-SSHRC fellowship and the Robert Sutherland fellowship. He researches sound in Caribbean diasporic literature and performance.
Kaie continues to craft new passages.
︎ ︎kaieouy@gmail.com