Author Kasia Van Schaik

Kasia Van Schaik

Kasia Van Schaik is a writer and doctoral candidate in the English Department at McGill University in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. Her work investigates the relationship between transient domestic spaces, material histories, and narrative forms in women’s writing in postwar North America. Kasia’s writing and public scholarship have appeared in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacket2, the Best Canadian Poetry Anthology, CBC Books, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, Sea Burial Laws According to Country, was published in 2018. In 2021, Kasia was named a CBC QWF writer-in-residence.

Too Soon, Too Late: The Temporality of Ecological Grief in Cinema

Kasia Van Schaik

July 2021

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“Do you burst into tears at the mere mention of the shrinking Amazon rainforests?” the article I’m scrolling through over breakfast wants to know. “Does the question, ‘Paper or plastic?’ send you into a mental ...