Ari Belathar

<p><strong>Ari Belathar&nbsp;</strong>is a Mexican poet and playwright in exile. Between 1994 and 2001, she facilitated creative writing and popular theatre workshops for indigenous women and children throughout Mexico. She was also a founding member of the first Mexican community radio station during the student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1999. After being kidnapped and tortured by the Mexican National Army in 2001 due to her work as an independent journalist and human rights activist, she escaped to Canada. A participant in Artscape&rsquo;s Gibraltar Point International Artists Residency Program, she has published poetry in literary journals and anthologies around the world. Belathar served as Writer-in-Residence through PEN Canada&rsquo;s Writers in Exile Program at the University of Windsor in 2006. That same year, she took part in the Wired Writing Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2009, Brandon University appointed her as the university&rsquo;s first Writer-in-Residence, as a result of this nine-month appointment, Belathar published her first collection of poetry in English, The Cities I Left Behind by Radish Press. Belathar&rsquo;s work has been awarded support by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. In the summer of 2010, Scirocco Drama published The TAXI Project &mdash;&nbsp;a collective play about exile, originally produced by PEN Canada, with Ari Belathar as lead-writer. Currently Belathar is working on the development of&nbsp;<em>La Danza del Venado</em>, a multidisciplinary play inspired by her own experience of illegally crossing the border into the United States as a child to reunite with her father.</p>

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