Serena Lukas Bhandar

I’m a writer, editor, educator, and witch1 living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (colon-ly known as Montréal). Er. Colonially. You know what I mean.

My first chapbook of poetry, this dying body, will be released in July 2022 with Rahila’s Ghost Press.

My other writing has been published in Plenitude Magazine, This Side of West, NonBinary Review, Briarpatch Magazine, and a few other places. I have a short story in Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color, and I wrote a chapter of Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture with Nora Samaran. I also edit with Room magazine and The Malahat Review, and have mentored trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit youth through the Gender Generations Project.

Artistic rendering of Serena Lukas Bhandar, a smiling woman with brown hair and olive skin, wearing a flowery scarf
  1. Yes, I’m a practicing witch! No, I do not eat children! I can’t tell if that idea is more racist or transmisogynistic! Okbye.

Here you can find some of my nonfiction writing, including my personal essays, memoir, lyrical, and longform pieces. More to come!