Alisha Piercy

Alisha Piercy is an artist-researcher and doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies (Research-Creation) at Queen’s University. Her interdisciplinary work includes drawing installation, film, and she is the author of poetry and novels. Her dissertation, a speculative theory-fiction, engages with research in hauntology, living Indigenous sci-fi, speculative design and multispecies worlding. The work explores the specters of colonial inheritance and haunting as a creative force that unsettles human relationships to ownership of land, water, and other-than-human worlds. In her story, propertied land-space is not banished but reconfigured as an imaginary of corridors that self-build and steward. Alisha first explored this topic as a Banff Centre for the Arts Writing Resident in 2021. Her fiction is published with Book*hug (Toronto). (alisha.piercy@queensu.ca, website: alishapiercy.com)