Chris Gallant: Poet, Author & Speaker
Turning personal stories into poetry that helps people recognize pieces of their own.
Chris Gallant is a Halifax-based Canadian poet, author, and experienced speaker. Blending personal storytelling with a spoken-word rhythm, his work explores love, family, mental health, heartache, hope, and the complicated beauty of growing through it all.
Through his debut collection, Under the Big Oak Tree, live performances, and school workshops, Chris creates honest moments of connection on the page, in the classroom, and on stages across Canada.
Finding the Words for Life as It Happens
For more than a decade, poetry has given Chris a place to make sense of life while it is still unfolding. His writing often begins with something small—a conversation, a memory, a relationship, or an ordinary moment that suddenly feels larger than it first appeared.
Through free verse and spoken-word rhythm, those moments become poems about love, family, mental health, heartache, hope, and personal growth. Although the stories begin with his own experiences, Chris writes with the belief that the most personal words can often create the most universal connections.
That approach became the foundation of his debut collection, Under the Big Oak Tree: a journey through the unexpected, joyful, painful, messy, and fleeting moments that shape a life.
Stories Were Always Meant to Be Shared
Public speaking has been part of Chris’s professional life since earning his degree in public relations and beginning a career in front of audiences. Since then, he has delivered more than 1,500 school presentations, emceed weddings, conferences, and corporate events, and spoken to groups ranging from a handful of people to hundreds at a time.
Poetry brought that experience onto an even larger stage. Whether performing for thousands, sharing a poem with one classroom, or recording alone behind a microphone, Chris approaches every audience the same way: with honesty, preparation, and a genuine desire to create a moment of connection.
Writing and performing poetry
School presentations delivered
People in his largest live performance audience
Of plays across online platforms
At Home on the East Coast
Halifax is more than the place Chris calls home. Its waterfront, changing seasons, close-knit communities, and East Coast character have all shaped the way he sees—and writes about—the world around him.
When he isn’t writing, recording, or speaking, Chris is usually spending time with his girlfriend, Millie, and the rest of his friends and family, coaching youth soccer, walking along the Halifax Waterfront, or cheering on the HFX Wanderers. Those ordinary moments of connection are often where the next poem begins.
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