Elizabeth Philips is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Torch River. Her first novel, The Afterlife of Birds (Freehand Books, 2015), won the City of Saskatoon Book Award and was a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. She lives in Saskatoon, where she is Acquisitions Editor for Thistledown Press. [provided for the poem “Guide to the Bones of the Foot”]