2023 photo by Paul Dhillon
about
Dayna Mahannah grew up in West Kelowna, BC, the territory of the Syilx and Okanagan people. She now lives in Vancouver with her partner and their uncategorizable mutt. Her work appears in Geist, Electric Literature, NUVO, TRUE Africa, and HELD Mag. She was once a contributing editor at Beatroute Magazine, a campaign manager at Adbusters, and is the current editor-in-chief at Geist. Dayna earned her MFA from the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and is a graduate of SFU’s The Writers Studio. She is writing a memoir about working as a reporter abroad—a story about the cost of ambition and the misfortune of finding yourself wherever you go.