Lisa Baird is a poet, a community acupuncturist and a queer white settler living on the territories of the Attawandaron/Chonnonton people, and of the Mississaugas of the Credit Anishnaabek people. (Also known as Guelph, ON.) Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals and she is a contributor to the Lambda Literary Award–winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016) and to GUSH: Menstrual Manifestos for Our Times (Frontenac House, 2018). Winter’s Cold Girls is her debut collection, published under the Dagger Editions imprint. www.lisabaird.ca

Photo Vanessa Tignanelli.