Daze Jefferies (she/her) is a white settler artist, writer, and educator based in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland). Her multidisciplinary research-creation practice explores queer, trans, and sex worker embodiments, counter-histories, and intergenerational relationships in Atlantic Canada.
Her work has been exhibited and performed at The Rooms, Eastern Edge Artist-Run-Centre, Struts Gallery, Owens Art Gallery, Galerie de l’UQAM, Art Gallery of Guelph, and the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Gallery, among others. She is the author of water/wept (Anstruther, 2023) and ullagone (antiphony, 2025), as well as co-author of Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands (Palgrave, 2018) and stay here stay how stay (The Rooms, 2024). Her work has also been published in the The Ex-Puritan, PRISM International, filling Station, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review, Arc, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Visual Poetry Chapbook, as well as anthologized in Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador and Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2023 VANL-CARFAC Emerging Artist Award and the 2024 Riddle Fence Poetry Prize. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, the City of St. John’s, and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
