(provided for the poem “Mary Oliver in the Hereafter”) Karen Massey (she/her) lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory. Her poems and found poems have been published online, and in 2 dozen print anthologies, and in literary journals including The New Quarterly, Aesthetica, subTerrain and Arc Poetry Magazine, where she received the 2020 Diana Brebner Award. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. Both of her chapbooks are from above/ground press.