Margaret Christakos is a widely published award-winning poet, fiction author, critic, and creative writing instructor. She has published nine collections of acclaimed poetry and one novel, and has given readings and seminars from her work across Canada and in the U.S. since 1989. Her work has won the ReLit Award for Poetry and the Bliss Carman Award, and has been nominated for the Pat Lowther Award twice and the Ontario Trillium Book Award. She was appointed Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor in 2004–2005, served as Canada Council Writer in Residence at Western University (London, Ontario) in 2016–2017 and at the University of Alberta in 2017–2018, and as Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor at University of Toronto (2018–2019). Her recent publications include Multitudes, a poetry collection published by Coach House Books (2013) and an intergenre memoir, Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies, published by Book*hug (2016). In 2017, Wilfrid Laurier University Press published Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos.