Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye (she/her), the 11th Saskatchewan Poet Laureate is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwrighter, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Author of "Earth Skin", a poetry collection retelling the joys and woes of human connection. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world. Her poems express her undying love for ironic justice, motivational banter, the dimmed light of Africa’s internal dilemma, and the trouble of cultural barriers.
She co-coordinates Write Out Loud, a Saskatoon-based youth poetry community. Peace facilitates poetry workshops in classrooms and schools across Saskatchewan's expansive and diverse communities through her work with Common Weal, Write Out Loud, and the Youth Speaker’s Bureau for the Office of the Treaty Commissioner. She has facilitated workshops at Nutana Collegiate, Aden Bowman, Warman High School, Saskatoon Open Door Society, Regina Open Door Society, Chokecherry Studios, and beyond. Her writing has introduced Neo Soul poetry into the spoken word scene, revealing the inauthenticity of the English language when spoken from a voodoo tongue. Her work knits together folklore, current events, and vivid imagery to create bridges.
When she is not contemplating the wonders of humankind, she can be found in the nearest cafe, people-watching and writing quirky questionnaires.