Bio
Trevor Abes is an artist from Toronto with a fondness for writing essays and poetry. He is the author of The New Frontiers Of Conceptual Art (short fiction) and The Breakup Suite (poems). 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 making art, Trevor spends his time learning and writing about investing and personal finance. See his Young Canadian Investor series, or his book, Nine Steps to Successful Investing: A Guide for Young Canadians. He’s eligible to be certified as a Mutual Fund Dealer Representative having completed his Canadian Securities Course, Investment Funds in Canada course, and ETF Supplement.
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).
