Janet Neigh is a Canadian writer and scholar currently working on her PhD in English at Temple University. She received her BA in English from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and her MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Her creative writing can be found in "Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry" (Mercury Press 2005), "HOW2", "Filling Station" and "West Coast Line". She has a critical essay forthcoming in the "Journal of Modern Literature" on the poetics of identification in the work of William Butler Yeats. She teaches courses in Literature, Creative Writing and Women's Studies at Temple.

Her current research focuses on the interplay between cross-cultural poetics and postcolonial feminist theory in the context of the Americas. For her dissertation, she is developing an interdisciplinary methodology for the study of contemporary poetry that employs poetry as a socially engaged form of critical discourse that can be utilized in the production of feminist knowledge.