These Dead Things Are Not My Fault
AMBER NUYENS
Amber Nuyens explores climate guilt, anxiety, and denial—both personal and collective in these vividly beautiful but stark and sobering works. Whether describing the soon-to-be extinct hoiho or a dying pet fish, Nuyens recounts these losses with the precision of a reporter—grim truths laid bare. These Dead Things Are Not My Fault is a necessary and phenomenal collection of prose poems and essayettes from an exciting new voice.
- KATHRYN MOCKLER, author of Anecdotes
published November 2025 in a print run of 100 copies
ISBN 978-1-997722-02-1
Amber Nuyens grew up on Syilx Okanagan territory (Winfield, BC) and lives on unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ territory (Victoria, BC) with her elderly lizard. Her work has been shortlisted for awards including for the Bridge Prize and the Okanagan Short Story Contest, and she has won awards including the UBC Okanagan Creative Writing Prize. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in magazines including carte blanche, PRISM international, Moss, and HAD. She is currently working on a Canada Council-funded collection of short fiction.