Kaile Shilling

Kaile has worked for decades at the intersection of creativity, storytelling, healing, education, and justice reform, and is deeply committed to the idea that there’s no better tool than the practice of arts to create community, understanding, and transformation.

Kaile currently heads up the Free Verse program at Pandora’s Collective, which includes teaching creative writing at three prisons in BC and organizing public readings of the work in collaboration with local poets. Prior to moving to Canada, she worked in Los Angeles where she founded the Arts for Healing and Justice Network (a network of arts organizations working in the youth prisons in LA) and co-created Create Justice (a four-year national think tank on arts and justice) with Carnegie Hall in New York. Kaile is a graduate of The Writers Studio at SFU and currently lives on the unceded home of the Coast Salish peoples.

Her writing has been published in Emerge24, WordWorks, SAD, Tahoma Literary Review and Pulp Literature.