Ethel Brown. Best Day Ever, 2020. black-and-white photograph.

Erin Wilson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Vallum Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire, CV2, Columba, Verse Daily, and in Worth More Standing, Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees. Her first collection is At Home with Disquiet. Her latest collection, Blue, is about depression, grief, and the transformative power of art. She has been long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize and has won a Pushcart Prize. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty territory in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishinawbek.