LISA BAIRD is a queer poet, essayist and community acupuncturist living on the territories of the Attawandaron, also the treaty land of the Mississaugas of the New Credit and Dish with One Spoon territory (Guelph ON). Her first poetry collection, Winter’s Cold Girls, was shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Award for poetry. Her chapbook Persephone’s Crickets was published by Baseline Press in fall 2024. Her second poetry collection, When Whales Went Back to the Water, came out with UAlberta Press in early 2025.
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