Poet and art writer LISA ROBERTSON began publishing in the 90s in Vancouver. Her 13 books trouble the limits of genre—Debbie: An Epic, a feminist rereading of Virgil, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1997 and published in French translation in 2021; The Weather (2001), a long poem plundering the rhetoric of Romantic meteorology, now translated to French and Swedish; the ficto-essays Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (2003) amplify the urban history of Vancouver; Nilling essays a phenomenology of reading (2012); the bildungsroman The Baudelaire Fractal, shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Fiction; the recent Anemones: A Simone Weil Project, working with translation and annotation. Her writing life has been supported by residencies and visiting professorships: University of Cambridge, Capilano University, Simon Fraser University, University of East Anglia, Queen Mary University of London, Princeton University, UC Berkeley, American University of Paris, California College of the Arts, Piet Zwart Institute; and by the Canada Council for the Arts. She lives in France.

NASSER HUSSAIN lives in Leeds and teaches Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University, where he is constantly astonished by the work his students produce. He has written reviews for Poetry London, Ambit, and the Poetry School, and has appeared on BBC’s The Verb and Free Thinking. His most recent book is SKY WRI TEI NGS, published with Toronto’s Coach House Books in late 2018, which is a constraint-based collection in which every word is an IATA airport code. He’s currently researching and practicing the use of letterpress type and is writing a book of poetry under the working title, Fun with English. Hussain holds a PhD in English from the University of York (UK), an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, and a BA in English from Queen’s University.