Kathleen McCracken is Canadian and the author of eight collections of poetry including Blue Light, Bay and College, shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, and a bilingual English/Portuguese edition entitled Double Self Portrait with Mirror: New and Selected Poems. A finalist for the WB Yeats Society of New York Poetry Competition, the Montreal International Prize for Poetry, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and the CBC Poetry Prize, in 2019 she won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. Kathleen Lecturers in Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature at Ulster University, N. Ireland.