Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor who works across genres. The author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Bright Machine, and The World After Rain, Lubrin is the recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, among other distinctions. She is the poetry editor at McClelland & Steward and coordinator of the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph.