Robyn Sarah was born in New York to Canadian parents and grew up in Montreal, where she still lives. She is the author of nine poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a book of essays, Little Eurekas: A Decade’s Thoughts on Poetry. Her poems have been anthologized in Fifteen Canadian Poets x 2 and x 3, The Best Canadian Poetry in English (2009 and 2010), The Bedford Introduction to Literature, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times (US) and Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology (UK). She edited The Essential George Johnston, The Essential Don Coles, and The Essential Margaret Avison for The Porcupine’s Quill, and is currently poetry editor for Cormorant Books.