About

Juleus Ghunta is a Chevening Scholar, social worker, poet, and literacy advocate. As the founder of Read Across Wood Buffalo, his work is grounded in the belief that the arts can broaden our moral imagination and foster empathy. His poems have appeared in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, WestWord, Wasafiri, Poetry Archive, The Caribbean Writer, sx salon, Chiron Review, and elsewhere. In 2025, he was selected by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta as one of six Writers-in-Residence tasked with supporting emerging writers across Alberta. He received the Catherine James Poetry Prize in 2017, won a Poetry Archive Wordview Prize in 2023, placed second in the 2024 Charles Causley Poetry Prize, and was honoured with the 2025 Buffys Literary Arts Award by Arts Council Wood Buffalo. His work has been a finalist for the Small Axe Poetry Prize (2015, 2016), Wasafiri New Writing Prize (2022, 2024), Alberta Magazine Awards Essay Prize (2025), and Moth Poetry Prize (2025). He is the author and editor of several children’s books, including You Never Know What You’re Going to Get: An Anthology of Short Stories (Chalkboard, 2025).