Haitian-born spoken word artist and advocate, Medgine is a person for whom the love of language and the alchemy of words is second nature. Her multi-lingual upbringing (French, Creole, English) not only prompted her to begin experimenting with the potential and magic of language but naturally compelled her into a deep love of poetry. Over the years, Medgine became a Lupus, CIDP, Polymyositis, and Raynaud’s warrior, all of which fuels her desire to merge storytelling and her power of language into patient advocacy especially for those living with chronic illness. Medgine currently serves as a Patient Advisor and is working on her first collection of poetry. She was one of the editors of the nationally distributed From the Root Zine, which explored matters of identity, consciousness, and resilience from the perspective of Black womanhood. 

Medgine was selected as a participant in the 2022 Mentorship Program with the Writer's Guild of Alberta's and recently completed her role as mentor with the 2022 Horizon Circle Writers Program, a writing mentorship program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC), ESL, and underrepresented writers living in Edmonton. Her debut multilingual chapbook “Waiting in the land of the living” (Attendre dans le monde des vivants) is set to launch July 2023.