The Author

Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, Loch Baillie (he/il) is a queer writer and editor based in Quebec City, Canada. He is the author of the poetry collection River Running (Goose Lane Editions, 2026), as well as two chapbooks: ice, dove parachute (Cactus Press, 2024) and Citronella (Anstruther Press, 2024). Loch’s writing has appeared in magazines in Canada and the United States, including Maclean’s, yolk literary, Pinhole Poetry, & Change, LBRNTH, and Ahoy. He is an associate poetry editor at Plenitude Magazine and a board director for the the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Loch’s literary endeavours have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He is currently pursuing his MA in English literature at Université Laval. Find him everywhere @lochbaillie.

The Books

River Running (Goose Lane Editions, 2026) – Raw and confessional, Loch Baillie’s first full-length poetry collection River Running dives gracefully into the intangible concept of home, be it person or place. “No more metaphors tonight,” writes Baillie, “I come to tell you nothing / but the truth.” This collection probes at memory and love, identity and grief, with achingly gentle hands, sifting through the fragments one both leaves behind and becomes.

ice, dove, parachute (Cactus Press, 2024) – Loch Baillie’s sophomore poetry chapbook is a bilingual exploration of queer, domestic life.

Citronella (Anstruther Press, 2024) – Loch Baillie’s debut chapbook Citronella is a queer Bildungsroman told in twelve poems. A review of Citronella by the Miramichi Reader can be read here.