Diane Massam

Diane Massam writes about aging, anxiety, and the entanglement of nature and mind. With recent
publications in Arc Poetry Magazine, The New Quarterly, and Queens Quarterly, she won the Federation
of BC Writers Poetry competition (2021), and was shortlisted for the 2024 Kingfisher Prize (Pulp
Literature). She is also a professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Toronto. She lives in
her hometown, Victoria, where she spends as much time as possible in gardens or forests or on the beach.
She has a soft spot for witches. (IG @massampoetry)

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