Fitsum Areguy is a writer and scholar-activist based in Southwestern Ontario. He is the co-founder and co-director of Textile, a hyper-local arts collective and publisher. Areguy is a 2025 Musagetes Fellow and member of the inaugural Nazar Research Cluster at Concordia University's Dark Opacities Lab.
With funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and Waterloo Region Community Foundation, Areguy is currently working on a collection of memoiristic essays detailing family histories in Ethiopia and Eritrea, while providing on-the-ground reportage into Canadian mining projects across the Horn of Africa.
