Liam Monaghan is a writer, theatre artist, researcher, and educator based in Edmonton, Alberta, the place known in Cree as Amiskwaciwâskahikan. His practice crosses the literary and performing arts, currently with a threefold interest in life writing and (auto)biography, archival research and archive-based performance, and revitalizing the queer past.

A recent graduate of the M.F.A. Theatre Practice program at the University of Alberta, Liam independently produced his thesis, Strange/Familiar, in June 2023; the script was awarded the Sharon Pollock Prize by the Alberta Playwrights’ Network.

Past productions of Liam’s plays have taken place at Theatre Outré (Lethbridge), the Queer Acts Festival (Halifax), Hapax Theatre (Victoria Fringe Festival), and Theatre Prospero/Thousand Faces Festival (Edmonton). He has published literary articles in The Dalhousie Review, Alberta Views Magazine, and Ploughshares.

Liam currently teaches in MacEwan University’s Writing Centre and has previously taught in the University of Alberta’s Department of Drama and the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in English.