Ian Cognitō

Ian Cogntiō is a queer poet from Vancouver Island, who is the author of five collections of poetry, including Animusings, Much Adieu about Nothing, and Interchange (a poetry/prose collaboration). He also co-edited an anthology on the topic of aging, Old Bones & Battered Bookends, which united poets from across BC, and beyond. From 2014 to 2020, Ian was the producer/artistic director of 15 Minutes of Infamy, a word-craft cabaret based in Nanaimo BC. In 2020, Ian established Repartee Press, an independent publisher of "user-friendly" poetry from writers from BC.