Peace Akintade

Peace Akintade, Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, is an Interdisciplinary-Poet, Chorus-Poem-Playwright, and Facilitator residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, and Equanimity in Conversation. Recipient of the RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the Platinum Jubilee Queen's Medal. The past 2020-2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate and 2022-2023 READSaskatoon Poet Laureate. Co-organizing Write Out Loud, a Youth Poetry Collective. Other playwrighting credits include Maddeness with Rocks with Obsidian Theatre and CBCGem, Painted Elephant with Black Theatre Workshop AMP, I Am Who I Am with SUMTheatre's First Monday, and But First Let Me Breathe with Theatre on the Beat.