Eli Tareq Lynch is a poet working in Montreal. Their work has appeared in the Puritan, carte blanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, The Best Canadian Poetry 2018, and elsewhere. They participated in the Banff Centre’s “Centering Ourselves” BIPOC residency, and currently work as the publicist at carte blanche and events coordinator at Drawn & Quarterly.
July 6, 2019
A book about friendship, polyamory, queerness, and unconventional families, Run J Run has all the makings of an exciting novel. But, bogged down by racial and mental health tropes, the book leaves an unsettling feeling.