Jane Munro is the author of five previous books of poetry, most recently Active Pass (Pedlar Press, 2010) and Point No Point (McClelland & Stewart, 2006). Her work has received the Bliss Carman Poetry Award and the Macmillan Prize for Poetry, and has been nominated for the Pat Lowther Award. She is a member of Yoko’s Dogs (Jan Conn, Mary di Michele, Susan Gillis, Jane Munro), a poetry collective whose first book, Whisk (Pedlar Press), was published in 2013. After living for twenty years on the coast of Vancouver Island, she has now returned to Vancouver.