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Tea Gerbeza
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She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).

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🤯 Wow, wow, wow, thank you Edmonton readers! I’m absolutely floored. 😭

Thank you abbookpub for sharing this and for the lovely graphic! Congrats to all amazing writers on the list this week. 💛 support writers (and your local bookstores!) friends, it’s the best way to make our days bright.
Graphic that details edmontons best selling books for the week of June 1. My book How I Bend Into more is listed.
June 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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I’m so late in posting about this, but thank you to Neighbours of South Albert St. South Magazine for featuring me and my little family in their May issue. Huge thanks to Shawna for interviewing me and writing such a lovely article. And to @goodhabitsmedia for the photos! 🫶🏻
An open magazine featuring a photo of me, my partner and our animals in our laps on the left spread. On the right is a column of the article and a photo of our dog Tonks and of me in front of the witch house in Salem.
May 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Saskatoon! Next Thursday I’m launching my book at McNally Robinson at 7pm. I hope my Stoon pals can make it!
Poster for Saskatoon book launch for How I bend Into more at mcnally Robinson.
April 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Absolutely floored that How I Bend Into More is on the bestseller list at @mcnallyrobinson.com for the week of April 6-16 😭💕😭 like what???

Thank you to all who have bought my book, or checked it out from your library, and read it.
Best seller list from McNally Robinson for this week featuring Tea’s debut HOW I BEND INTO MORE
April 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Thank you Winnipeg for a wonderful launch event! I’m grateful to all who came out! And to wonderful John and Daniel at @mcnallyrobinson.com—thank you for bringing the event to life! & to @sarahens.bsky.social thank you for always being the most thoughtful reader and friend. 💕
Tea is signing books at a table.
April 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Thank you CBC Manitoba for having me on the air this morning to talk about my book and launch tonight at @mcnallyrobinson.com ! 💕
Tea sits at CBC radio studio. A black mic is in front of her and she’s smiling. She took her mask off for the photo.
April 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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On April 22, Yolanda Hansen, Barbara Klar, Tracy Hamon, Tea Gerbeza & Cat Abenstein will share their poetry to mark Earth Day & the conclusion of Yolanda’s mentorship with Barbara. Join us for the celebration!

Hosted at Venue B Coffee Lounge, 110 – 2300 Dewdney Avenue, Regina, SK at 7:00 pm.
circle photos of all the readers with their names in white text just below their photo. Yolanda and Barbara’s photo are slightly bigger and near the top (just underneath large text of the title of the event: “You Make Me Dream of Spring: An Earth Day Poetry Celebration”). Cat, Tea, and Tracy’s photos are in a line underneath. Background is a lush green forest and highway road.
April 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Another day another bolo
A white cis Bosnian woman with long wavy brown hair is smiling at the camera. She wears a cream turtle neck and a blue bolo tie with a white sculpted bunny as its middle.
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Spotted at @mcnallyrobinson.com in Saskatoon! 💕
My book, How I Bend Into More, on a shelf at McNally Robinson booksellers in Saskatoon. The cover is facing out.
March 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Congrats Sandy for winning my preorder giveaway!
March 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Thank you Guelph! 💕

Huge thanks to Jeremy Luke Hill for organizing the event, and congrats to my fellow writers: Adam Honsinger, @kasiajaronczyk.bsky.social @madeprojects.bsky.social @hollay.bsky.social on your wonderful books!
Tea reading on a small stage from her book. She’s wearing a mask, an orange quilted dress, yellow tights.
March 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Thank you Toronto for such a lovely evening of poetry! 💕 what a delight to launch How I Bend Into More with all of you.
I am reading from my book in front of an audience at a bookstore. I’m wearing a purple and pink and blue flowered dress. I’m not wearing my mask to ensure anyone who needs to lip read could but did wear my mask before and after the reading.
March 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Come celebrate some awesome books with us in Guelph this weekend! 🖤✨

March 1, 7pm, at ANAF Club 344 (32 Gordon St, Guelph, ON)

This is a mask friendly event! Please wear a mask!
poster for co-book launch between Gordon Hill Press and Palimpsest Press in Guelph at ANAF Club 344. Poster features time and location details mentioned in caption and photos of all readers and their books. Readers are Adam Honsinger, Kasia Jaronczyk, Tea Gerbeza, Hollay Ghadery, and collaborative duo, MA|DE.
February 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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WiP
Paper quilled flowers glued to a green tie dye fabric.
February 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Every time I read this heartfelt blurb of my book from Daniel Tysdal, I get teary eyed. Dan’s poetry is unreal and he’s one of my fav poets and people, so this blurb is real special. 🖤

#BookSky
Image of text over a translucent speech bubble over a black background. Book blurb quote: “How I Bend Into More is a singular, stunning debut. The brilliance and courage with which Tea Gerbeza remembers, witnesses, experiences, and imagines is matched only by the intensity with which she bends the boundaries of art. Gerbeza expands the possibilities of poetry, renewing the creative potential of everything from punctuation, lines, and images to layout, paper, and the corporeal body itself. Read this book immediately and share in this expansion, this renewal.” — Daniel Scott Tysdal.
February 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Fig found a basket
A tortoise shell cat in a wicker basket. She has enormous eyes and is staring right into the camera
February 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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My beautiful friend Avnee wearing the golden paper-quilled sunflower earrings I made her on my wedding day 💕✨
A brown woman with glasses smiles at the camera. Her hair is in a braided crown. She wears large dangly statement paper-quilled sunflower earrings.
February 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Save the dates! I’m taking How I Bend Into More on tour. 💕
Photo of Tea holding her hat smiling with prairie hills behind her. Above her is text for all her book tour stops and dates: Toronto on Feb 28, Guelph on March 1, Regina on March 13, Winnipeg on April 12, Saskatoon on April 24 , Prince Albert on May 12 and Edmonton on May 29.
February 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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HOW can I possibly fold laundry now????
A tricolour corgi lies in a laundry basket full of clothes.
February 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Some leaf earrings I made for my lovely pal @cdnshieldcarla.bsky.social 💕
Green paper quilled leaf earrings that have woven shapes with lots of gaps that make up the leaf shape. A lot of light comes through these earrings! They are laid out on a mirror tray.
February 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Hey Regina friends, come to my launch! Featuring the incredible @poetcourtney.bsky.social @clumsyknees.bsky.social @cdnshieldcarla.bsky.social and Cat Abenstein! 💕💕💕
Poster for Tea’s book launch happening on March 13 in Regina, SK at The Artesian at 7pm ft. Poets Courtney Bates-Hardy, Dayne Blair, Carla Harris, and Cat Abenstein. Circular photos of all readers are across the bottom of the image. Tea’s photo is beside an image of her book cover.
February 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Tonks hopes you enjoy my book like she did
A corgi Pomeranian is laying in a cow pattern dog bed. Tea’s poetry book is beside her.
February 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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THEY’RE A REAL TANGIBLE THING! AND THEY’RE HERE.
Tea holds her debut book of poetry up and is smiling with a huge open mouthed smile
February 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Meme of cat screaming with a bunch of blurry heart and rainbow emojis coming out of its mouth and around its head.
February 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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May this pup bring you good luck
A tan fluffy corgi-Pomeranian cross sleeping on a purple text blanket. She looks so serene.
February 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM