Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist based in Mississauga and Ottawa, ON. She is the author of Heliotropia (Brick Books, 2024) and MONUMENT (Brick Books, 2022), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Award. Manahil was selected as a Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Star in 2023. See her work at manahilbandukwala.com.