Spillious aka Trevana Spilchen is, among many things, a transfeminine settler educator, parent, partner, musician, and spoken word artist of Ukrainian and Irish descent.

Verses Festival of Words, 2018, photo by Patrick Shannon

They won the 2017 Grand Slam Championship of the long-running Vancouver Poetry Slam and finished 6th at the 2018 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam.

They have toured as a featured poet all throughout Canada and the US. Spillious has released 3 chapbooks of poetry and the last, Tales of Trans-formation has sold 200 copies. Most importantly Spillious is a parent to 4 kids ranging in age from 4 years to 22 years old and 4 cats named Cola, Orange Crush, Dr. Pepper & Root Beer!