Bio
Trevor Abes is an artist from Toronto with a fondness for writing essays and poetry. He was part of the winning ensemble at the 2015 SLAMtario Spoken Word Festival, and competed in both the National Poetry Slam and the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word as part of the Toronto Poetry Slam team. His work has appeared in Torontoist, (parenthetical), untethered, Sewer Lid, Spacing Magazine, Descant Magazine, The Rusty Toque, The Theatre Reader, Mooney on Theatre, The Toronto Review of Books, Hart House Review, and Sequential: Canadian Comics News & Culture, among others.
When he’s not writing, Trevor enjoys learning about all things investing and personal finance. He manages his own portfolio through the rubric of value investing and recently finished the course work to obtain his license as a Mutual Fund Dealer Representative.
Reading at knife fork book. Photo by Erika Chan (2019).
Facilitate. Photo by Sandro Pehar (2018).
In My Mother Tongue poetry workshop. Koffler Centre of the Arts (2018).
Hosting Facilitate. Photo by Sandro Pehar (2017).
The 2015 Toronto Poetry Slam Team.
Word on the Street (2015).
